The capital of Venezuela, Caracas, was today the headquarters of political mobilizations starring the main forces that will be measured next Sunday in the presidential elections.
The candidate for re-election by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, before leading the mobilization in Caracas, was in the city of Maracaibo, capital of the western state of Zulia, from where he insisted on the need to guarantee the country’s peace.
Once in Caracas, the head of state reported from the main platform located on the iconic Bolivar Avenue: On July 29, I dawn calling for a great national dialogue.
I will convene the whole of Venezuelan society, without foreign interference, I don’t want anyone to mess with Venezuela, the national dialogue will be inclusive, the president emphasized.
In this sense, he assured that there will be peace, before and after July 28, I guarantee it, I have the civic-military-police union, I am the leader of the civic-military-police union.
Maduro pointed out that the national dialogue he will convene will take place in the dimensions of the economic, the cultural, the social and the political.
He also greeted the international viewers and guests of more than a hundred nations that are in the country to participate in next Sunday’s democratic process.
Maduro, also a candidate for the Gran Polo Patriótico coalition, took the opportunity to close the campaign to ask for support for the people of his country, especially the inhabitants of Caracas, his hometown: I ask the great Caracas on July 25, and I ask the whole of Venezuela for its support for its love and vote to win the elections.
As a summary of what was his electoral campaign, which began on July 4, Maduro recounted: “I was in more than 300 villages, touring the Homeland. We have resisted because we love our Homeland and because we have faith in our own, even though we have faced the worst aggression in our history.
He described the deployment of his forces as an admirable, heroic, creative, cheerful, festive and propositional campaign.
He promised to improve the income of workers and continue to recover the income of the family.
For his part, the candidate for the opposition Democratic Unitarian Platform (PUD), Edmundo González Urrutia, was present in the mobilization called by the political forces that support him.
This activity took place in eastern Caracas, specifically on the main avenue of the Mercedes.
González Urrutia declared earlier, through a press conference that, after Sunday, Venezuela will travel through a stage of reunion and reconciliation.
In this sense, he said that, if we win, we don’t come to chase anyone, we don’t come and throw anyone out of their job.
The candidate of the PUD was accompanied by other opposition leaders who also highlighted the coalition’s recent organizational achievements, highlighting that they have more than 90,000 witnesses for the elections, of which 84,000 have already been accredited.
Tonight, after the press conference and from the main avenue of the Mercedes where the sympathizers of this option concentrated, González Urrutia considered it important to leave behind the political diatribe that brings nothing.
The other eight candidates qualified for next Sunday’s electoral contest opted for more modest activities to close their electoral campaigns, several of them thanking their followers through social networks or visiting some popular communities.
These seekers are part of a sector of the opposition not aligned with the LDP and agree on a call to preserve national stability. They are: José Brito, Claudio Fermín, Benjamín Rausseo, Javier Bertucci, Luis Eduardo Martínez, Enrique Márquez, Antonio Ecarri and Daniel Ceballos.
For this Sunday’s elections, more than 21.6 million citizens are empowered to exercise their right to vote in the Caribbean country.
This article has been translated after first appearing in El Pais