María Corina Machado warned that the Maduro regime “will continue to use its criminal organization to persecute”.

The candidate of the main opposition coalition in Venezuela in the 2024 presidential election, Maria Corina MachadoIn his New Year's message this Monday, he promised to “do everything” in the “difficult negotiations” – with the government being “conducted” because the “will is common” in view of these elections. Population is “always ahead.”

“There is a complex negotiation going on with the government in which I have to do everything in my interest Common And Venezuela's superiority is always ahead,” the former deputy said in a video he posted on social media, in which he did not provide further details about these conversations.

As he won 92.35% of the vote in the primaries last October, the country gave him “a mandate” – he confirmed – that he would “fulfill” through the free “liberation and transformation of Venezuela”. and fair presidential elections.”

We are “We are ready to take advantage of the real opportunity that comes our way.”Machado revealed.

The opposition leader promised that “the most important year in Venezuela's contemporary history” had begun, in which a “spiritual struggle for good against evil” would be waged and the “criminal organization” would be “confronted and defeated”. Elections are currently scheduled for the second semester, with no definite date.

“It's not easy to come by. The regime will continue to use every arm of its criminal organization as a tentacle to trample, threaten, harass and intimidate.(…) Let us always remember that its purpose is to depress us and distract us from attention, which is to build our best system,” said Machado, who is not eligible to hold elected public office.

Asserting that he was never disqualified, Machado asked the Supreme Court (TSJ) to review his case in December. Both sides are maintaining political talks in the run-up to the presidential election.

Machado, on the other hand, asked citizens to create their own campaign mandates for these elections and put “their skills and resources at service.” “Liberation and Transformation” The country, he said, would be achieved through “free and clean” elections.

“I ask you to set up your own campaign command with Venezuela, people organize in every house, every workshop, every school, every church, every warehouse, every company, (…) everywhere you are. We're going to get thousands and thousands of propaganda orders with Venezuela all over the country and abroad” he said in his New Year message.

According to the former deputy, the country's “liberation” is “fundamentally systemic” and holding “free elections” is the “responsibility of all Venezuelans” and “the responsibility of the world's democrats”, with enormous implications for “the region and the West” in “achieving a peaceful and orderly transition” in the oil nation. They understand.

In a video he posted on social networks, he announced that the creation of “a very strong structure to protect the vote” is already underway, “an enormous army of 600,000 citizens trained and coordinated”, “600k network”. “It's never been done before on this continent.”

“2024 will be a year of hard work and each one of us accepts our duty,” said the opposition leader, who is not eligible to hold elected public office.

(with information from EFE)