Far-right Justice First party politician Tomás Guanipa. File photo.
Venezuelan far-right opposition politician Tomás Guanipa urged the opposition sector not to create false expectations about the presidential inauguration on January 10, 2025, and to promote a realistic approach instead.
During an interview on Thursday, December 26, Guanipa called on the opposition not to create expectations that cannot be fulfilled.
“There is the realism with which you should look at things, and you should not create expectations that cannot be fulfilled—we cannot repeat past mistakes,” said the leader of the Justice First party.
In recent months, far-right politicians have threatened to violate the sovereignty and will of Venezuelans on January 10, when President Nicolás Maduro is scheduled to be sworn in before the National Assembly after being re-elected on July 28.
The former right-wing presidential candidate, Edmundo González, has repeatedly stated that he will return to Venezuela on that day in order to be inaugurated.
However, in recent days, the far right has changed its discourse and has ruled out this possibility.
Venezuelan Opposition Leader Wants End of Illegal 2015 National Assembly
Nicolás Maduro is the president
Tomás Guanipa confirmed that the person who governs Venezuela and is in Miraflores Palace is Nicolás Maduro.
“Nobody has a magic wand here, but what we must do is to recognize the facts,” he said during the interview. “Sometimes we say that this government is illegitimate, yes, that is fine, but they are the ones in Miraflores and our goal is to change that, and to do that we have to acknowledge the situation in which we are.”
During the interview with opposition-leaning journalist Vladimir Villegas, Guanipa joined the call made by other opposition politicians to close the cycle of the defunct National Assembly of 2015 that is being kept alive artificially by the opposition and Washington to keep control of Venezuelan assets abroad.
In this regard, the Justice First leader stated that the 2015 National Assembly no longer makes sense and called for finding useful and real methods to generate political change in Venezuela.
(RedRadioVE) by Ana PerdigĂłn, with Orinoco Tribune content
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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