[News]Venezuela returns to the polls without the great names of the opposition

[WilkerCSBD]

Venezuela arrives this Sunday, December 6, for new legislative elections. The National Electoral Council (CNE) has ensured that the machinery is ready to hold these elections, which also coincide with the coronavirus pandemic.

Just over 20 million Venezuelans are called to choose 277 deputies from some 14,400 candidates. In all this range of candidates there are not the traditional leaders of the opposition, as they chose to abstain from participating in these elections because they considered them fraudulent.

Although the great names of the opposition will not go to the elections, some of their parties will, intervened by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ).

After the intervention, the Supreme Court appointed former militants expelled from the organizations and accused of corruption by their former colleagues as party leaders, leaving aside those politicians who led them up to that moment.

The votes will not be recognized by the European Union (EU) or by the Organization of American States (OAS) and, according to projections, abstention will be the protagonist of the contest.

The World Jurist Association, based in Washington, has published this Saturday a statement signed by more than 1,000 legal professionals from various countries in which they denounce that the elections "lack the necessary guarantees to consider them an election. valid ".

Those who win tomorrow will occupy their seats from January 5, 2021, when the new National Assembly (AN, Parliament) is constituted. This new assembly will dispute international recognition with the current Chamber of overwhelming opposition majority and led by Juan Guaidó.

The Venezuelan National Assembly has approved this Saturday a motion to reject the legislative elections scheduled for this Sunday, December 6, in which the opposition considers that the Government of President Nicolás Maduro intends to replace the current Assembly, controlled by the opposition.

The deputies who back Guaidó, recognized as interim president of Venezuela by some 50 countries, have said that they will continue their efforts despite the fact that the Constitution establishes that their term ends in five years, and they were invested in January 2016.

The ruling party, for its part, developed an intense political campaign with numerous mass gatherings that had the participation of representatives of the Executive.

The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, led several acts and stated, in the final stretch of the campaign, that he will leave the Presidency if the opposition wins Parliament again, an unlikely scenario.