Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Saturday he will be sworn in as president of the Caribbean nation for the period 2025-2031. next January 10as established by the Constitution, after the National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed him winner of the elections of July 28, a result questioned inside and outside the country. Furthermore, he assured that the leader Opposition MP María Corina Machado prepares to leavebecause – he says – the anti-Chavistas “They are cowards.”
“On January 10, President Nicolás Maduro Moros will take the oath of office with millions of people in the streets, as prescribed by the Constitution,” the president said during an event celebrating his controversial re-election in the northern state of La Guaira. ). . Maduro rejected the fact that next January, after the abandonment of the majority opposition coalition – Democratic Unity Platform (PUD), Edmundo González Urrutia will be sworn in as the next president of Venezuela. despite allegations of electoral “fraud” on the part of anti-Chavism people.
“The Constitution is exhaustive and says that the president is proclaimed by the corresponding bodies, in this case the Electoral Power, and ratified by the expertise of 100% of the (voting) minutes, carried out by the Electoral Chamber (of the Supreme Court) of Justice), will be sworn in on January 10,” he added.
On the other hand, he spoke of an imminent departure from the country of Corina Machado. “Today I tell you, the so-called queen bee was left without a bee and she prepares the Gucci suitcases (…) she knows what I say and ‘La Sayona’ (in reference to Machado) prepares to leave, compadre, I say it too, they are cowards”, declared the president in the demonstration called to celebrate his controversial re-election in the state of La Guaira (north).
“Fascists promote division”
Maduro recalled that he had warned a few weeks ago that the abandonment of Venezuela’s main opposition coalition – the United Democratic Platform (PUD) -, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, would leave the country. González Urrutia left Venezuela and arrived on September 8 in Madrid, where he requested asylum and where in the last three weeks he obtained recognition from the European Parliament and other international organizations as “president-elect “Venezuelan actors.
Maduro declared that “fascists promote hatred and division“Intolerance, they seek violence, when they are in a group they rebel, but when they are defeated they are cowards.” The president indicated that after two months of presidential elections, Chavismo has consolidated “victory”, peace, growth. economic and social recovery plans.
Protests against Maduro
Opponents demonstrated this Saturday in Caracas and other cities across the country against the official election result presidential elections since, they insist, the winner was González Urrutia with a large majority. The demonstration, called by the PUD, took place in “swarm” mode, so that citizens could “appear and disappear” quickly for security reasons, as Machado explained.
The former MP, who hid her whereabouts while the government labeled her a terrorist, participated indirectly in these demonstrationsthrough a recording broadcast by citizens. “Each recording (of voting) contains miles, millions of stories, steps, tears, each recording is a testimony of our strength, our courage and our determination to be free and equal, each recording contains the truth of popular sovereignty expressed in every vote,” Machado said through the audio.
Likewise, he maintained that every day the government of Maduro is “more alone, isolated and weak, his violent attacks are a sign”, obviously out of desperation”
