Uncertainty reigns over what could be One of the most difficult elections for Chavismo in 25 yearsthe government of Nicolás Maduro, which generates widespread rejection after years of authoritarianism, adjustment and repression, faces the opposition emboldened with the Right-wing Maria Corina Machado –disqualified– strengthened and her candidate Edmundo Gonzalez positioned. Although the polls on the results themselves are biased or unreliable, there is a palpable atmosphere that for the first time in years the government could be defeated. However, in elections that are being carried out under perversely undemocratic and fraudulent mechanisms, It is uncertain what the National Electoral Council will announce (CNE).
As we assessed in this previous report about the elections and their nature, it has been orchestrated a process tailored to the government with several possible scenarios All of them are an expression of the Venezuelan political crisis and the degradation of the reactionary Bonapartist regime of Maduro, with the interference and strengthening of the right and the extreme right (and its former coup sectors), allies of the United States. The secrecy surrounding what is being negotiated and various discretionary movements also show possible scenarios that Involve the Armed Forces, a crucial factor in VenezuelaIn that report, we also referred to the politics of the United States, as well as the impact of these elections in Latin America. We invite anyone who wishes to learn more about all these aspects of one of the most controversial elections in the region to read this report.
Several events and demonstrations marked the end of the campaign on Thursday 25, where the government sought to concentrate as many people from the interior of the country as possible in Caracas, filling the emblematic Avenida Bolívar; and in the same way the most important opposition bloc, led by the right-wing María Corina Machado with her candidate Edmundo González in the eastern region of the city, its historic stronghold.
In these acts, we did not hear anything new that they had not said during the entire electoral process where, from the ruling party, Maduro promised that he will do what he has not done in years of government and María Corina assured that change is comingmaking the most of the great discontent and social weariness with the government, which also expresses a program against the great majority of workers and popular sectors, in that both candidates are related.
In addition to Nicolás Maduro and Edmundo González as main candidates, eight more are running, all under the reigning consensus of capitalist platformsauthorized by the CNE to subtract votes from the candidate Edmundo González.
Maduro’s comings and goings with his allies and the blockade of the international right that is betting on María Corina
The last few days have been marked by the tension with other countries in the regionrecently Brazilian President Lula Da Silva declared in response to Maduro’s claim that an opposition victory in Sunday’s elections would result in a “bloodbath”: “I was scared by Maduro’s statements that if he loses the elections there will be a bloodbath. Whoever loses the elections takes a bath of votes, not blood.” With this, Lula sought to distance himself from any Maduro adventuresince it is the one that has been engaging in the most dialogue in the region. Although according to the Venezuelan government, Maduro’s phrase had the meaning of saying that “the right came for blood.”
At the last minute, the Maduro government withdrew the invitation to former Argentine president Alberto Fernándezwho would attend Venezuela as an observer of the electoral process, after declaring on an Argentine radio station that the Venezuelan president must accept an eventual defeat. “Yesterday [martes 23 de julio]”The Venezuelan national government informed me of its desire that I not travel and that I desist from fulfilling the task that the National Electoral Council had entrusted to me,” Fernández declared.
On the side of the international right, openly aligned with Maria Corina Machadowho supported the entire coup attack of January 2019 promoted by Trump with the puppet Juan Guaidó, wanted to have their role in Venezuelan territory, but were returned upon arrival at the Caracas International Airport or were directly prevented from boarding at the airports of their countries, since Venezuela reported that they were on the flights of said plane could not land on Venezuelan territory.
Among the first were deputies of the Spanish right wing of the Popular Party and other countries in Europe; but the most notorious cases were those of the members of the Lima Group (no longer in existence). Among them were the former presidents of Mexico, Vicente Fox; of Panama, Mireya Moscoso; of Costa Rica, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez; of Bolivia, Jorge Tuto Quiroga; and the former vice president of Colombia Marta Lucía Ramírez, among other figures of the continental right, who were not able to leave even the Panama Airport. Chilean President Gabriel Boriccomplained because his friends Senators José Manuel Rojo Edwards and Felipe Kast, from the local right, were also not allowed to travel. Once their impediment to travel was known, they all launched their campaign in favor of María Corina Machado and her candidate Edmundo González.
The absence of a working-class and socialist alternative, and the campaign “The working class has no candidate”
In this general framework, where None of the candidates defends the interests of the working class and popular sectors but, on the contrary, they agree to continue and deepen pro-capitalist policies and adjustments to workers, it is important to highlight the effort deployed by the members of the “The working class has no candidate” campaign promoted by the comrades of the Party of Socialism and Liberty (PSL), the PPT-APR (Patria Para Todos – Popular Revolutionary Alliance), Marea Socialista and the League of Workers for Socialism (LTS, which promotes La Izquierda Diario in Venezuela). This campaign took as its central axes the question of the Workers’ independence and a political programme with an anti-capitalist perspective that workers must govern, which can be read in the Unitary Declaration. The working class has no candidate in this election. They do not represent us! And in the formulation of the vote, calling for a null vote.
Below we provide a selection of various materials that were published by the campaign that proposed an exercise in political resistance, from class independence, in the face of the proscription of the left and the reigning capitalist consensus among the candidatesThese include statements at press conferences, opinion articles, videos on social media, infographics, etc., with the arguments and positions of this campaign.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
