‘Support us so that we have free elections’ – El Financiero

A group of 27 Venezuelan opponents This Friday they sent a letter to President Andrés Manuel López Obradorin which they ask for your support so that the presidential elections of Venezuela are “free, transparent, and competitive.”

“Very respectfully, we ask that, on behalf of the Mexican people, support the process of a free, transparent and competitive electionto be held on July 28 of the current year,” reads the letter, shared by former deputy José Guerra on the social network X.

Likewise, they point out that Mexico has been an example of respect for democratic institutions and alternation in the Government, characteristics that they say they want for Venezuela“through free, transparent, fair and competitive elections, with absolute adherence to respect for the human and political rights of all its citizens.”

”It is absolutely imperative to end the practice, already recurrent, of disqualifying and blocking candidates, some already duly registered with the electoral body to participate in elections, judicially suspending political parties with a clear democratic orientation and limit freedom of information of the country’s various media outlets“, they added.

What did AMLO say about the presidential elections in Venezuela?

On April 5, López Obrador asked, in a generic way and without taking a position, that the people of Venezuela be allowed to vote “freely” in the presidential elections, although he refused to comment on the disqualification of the opposition leader María Corina Machado or the blockade of registration as Corina Yoris candidate.

“I hope there is democracy and the elections are held in peace and that’s it, and that they leave the Venezuelan people free to choose,” said the president during his morning press conference, something that was applauded by both the Government and some opponents, who interpreted it differently. way the words of López Obrador.