A number of Venezuelan opposition parties held a press conference on January 23, 2025, to announce their participation in the 2025 elections. Photo: Social media.
Representatives of the democratic opposition will participate in the elections to be held in Venezuela in 2025.
During a press conference on Thursday, January 23, opposition National Assembly deputies Luis Augusto Romero (Progressive Advance), Bernabé Gutiérrez (Democratic Action) and Timoteo Zambrano (Let Us Change Citizen Movement) announced that their political parties will participate in the upcoming 2025 elections.
The deputy from Progressive Advance party, Luis Augusto Romero, highlighted the importance of “dialogue and negotiation as pillars of a civilized politics.”
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He also stressed that it is essential for all political sectors to unite to discuss important topics related to the upcoming elections.
“All the political sectors that are here jointly work in the exercise of dialogue and negotiation as a fundamental element of civilized politics,” Romero said. “People solve their problems through dialogue, conversation and democratic confrontation in the exercise of the vote, and the party members who are sitting here believe in this.”
He called upon the opposition to “have the vote in its DNA, since it would be irresponsible not to capitalize on the opportunity to defeat the government in the next elections, both at national and local level.”
Romero also made a call for the opposition “not to fall into the abstention trap,” since that would “only benefit the government.”
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This statement comes in response to the extreme-right leader María Corina Machado’s call for abstention in the upcoming 2025 elections.
In this context, the parliamentarian urged all opposition sectors to unite in a “solid electoral platform to try to recover power in all governmental instances.”
In 2025, elections will be held for governors, regional legislative councils, mayorships, municipal councils, National Assembly, and six popular consultations.
(RedRadioVE) by Ana Perdigón
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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