Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro personally greeting recently elected opposition mayors visiting him at Miraflores Palace for a working meeting. Photo: Presidential Press.
President Nicolás Maduro has led a working meeting with the opposition mayors elected on July 27. The event took place in the Simón Bolívar Hall of Miraflores Palace in Caracas.
At the meeting this Wednesday, August 13, the president was accompanied by: first lady, Deputy Cilia Flores; vice president, Delcy Rodríguez; Jorge Márquez, vice president of public works and services sector; minister for transportation, Ramón Velásquez Araguayán; executive secretary of the Federal Council of Government, Leonardo Montezuma; and numerous other officials.
The head of state had explained, during the installation of the Federal Council of Government (CFG) on August 6, that municipal and regional representatives are tasked with firmly supporting the Communal Power in the execution of its projects, with professional guidance, infrastructure, and financial resources.
At the same time, he urged those present at the CFG to work to defeat all criminal gangs that still exist in the country, through planning citizen security within peace departments in the communal circuits.
Last Monday, August 4, President Maduro highlighted that the alternative opposition is taking the constitutional and democratic path with its own leadership, “winning 50 important mayoralties, which are also powerful in the country.”
“This is the 33rd [regional] election, and out of the 33, we’ve won 31 elections,” he continued. President Maduro extended an invitation to the country’s democratic opposition to participate in building a peaceful political and social life for all Venezuelans, together.
“We have an obligation to build a stable country. The opposition has its own form of expression, its audience, and its people,” he said, while noting that, at times, the opposition’s agenda has been dominated by extremist sectors, marking key moments in history.
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The Chavista leader emphasized that today, democracy is not measured solely in votes, but in the capacity for shared action. “The old ways—bureaucracy, indolence, waiting—no longer have a place. Governing with the people is not a slogan: it is the only possible path. And that democracy—as Chávez dreamed of—is already being built: with young faces, with working hands, with awakened communities,” he said. “To every official, we say: no more distance. No more excuses. No more unproductive hierarchies. These people are ready to exercise power. The state must rise to the occasion, with technical efficiency and human sensitivity. With respect. With a willingness to listen. With humility.”
The president also expressed his hope that the new generation of the Venezuelan opposition, which emerged in the recent national elections, can fulfill its responsibilities alongside the people and contribute to the country’s progress.
Electoral victory
The president finished by highlighting the recent results of the July 27 elections, in which 285 of the 335 mayoralties across the country were won by the ruling party and its allies, representing 85% of the total. Turnout was more than 44% of summoned voters, so it is projected that 6,273,531 Venezuelans voted this day.
In the context of the recent elections, he also mentioned the elections held last Sunday in the indigenous communities, where they elected their councilors using their sovereign ancestral methods.
The PSUV consolidated its position as the country’s leading political force, winning 23 governorships of the country’s 24 states.
(Últimas Noticias) by Carlos Eduardo Sánchez
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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