Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in power for ten years, will run in the 2024 presidential election. But the vote still needs to take place. This Thursday, January 25, 2024, the head of state called into question the agreements concluded with the opposition which provide for the organization of this election.
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Nicolas Maduro left doubts surrounding his candidacy at the start of the year. Yesterday, Thursday January 25, the President of the National Assembly announced that the Head of State would indeed be the Chavismo candidate during the presidential election scheduled for the second half of 2024. But at the same time, Nicolas Maduro attacked agreements signed with the opposition in October 2023.
“Intensive care»
For him, the Barbados agreements are mortally wounded: “I declare them in intensive care. They were stabbed. They were kicked. I hope we can save the Barbados Accords and achieve great national consensus agreements through frank dialogue without plans to assassinate me, us or spread violence in the country.”
Conspiracies
In recent days, the authorities have claimed to have foiled several plots targeting the head of state. They arrested around thirty people, civilians and soldiers, and blamed the opposition, the American intelligence services and the Colombian army. Purefiction», Reacted the opposition coalition, “Plataforma unitaria”, which demands that the date of the presidential election be fixed and appeals to the international community.
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