2023-06-30 17:12:38
President Gustavo Petro responded this Friday morning to the decision of the Nicolás Maduro regime to disqualify María Corina Machado, candidate for the presidency of Venezuela. “No administrative authority should take away political rights from any citizen,” said the head of the Colombian state.
(In context: Venezuela: they ratify the political disqualification of María Corina Machado for 15 years)
This was the response of the president to the following question raised on his social networks by Sebastián Nohra: “President @petrogustavo, one of your causes has been to prevent control entities from denying political rights to leaders like you. What is your position about the 15-year-old disqualified that the Venezuelan Comptroller has just imposed on Maria Corina Machado?
According to the EFE agency, the Comptroller General of Venezuela confirmed that the opposition María Corina Machado, registered to participate in the October primaries, prior to the 2024 presidential elections, is disqualified from competing for a popular election position for a total of 15 years, reported this Friday the deputy José Brito.
Petro has become a protagonist of the political actors who seek the existence of a full democracy in Venezuela.
Relations between Colombia and Venezuela were broken until Petro’s rise to power. The rupture occurred on February 23, 2019 by an order from Nicolás Maduro in response to the recognition that his Colombian counterpart at the time, Iván Duque, made opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela.
Petro has met Maduro on several occasions and was the impetus for an international meeting in Bogotá to build bridges in the search for alternative dialogue.
Nicolas Maduro and Gustavo Petro.
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Presidential Press
“We must revive the spirit of dialogue in Bogotá where 20 countries attended, keep it alive. Soon I will receive a group of foreign ministers from the countries participating in the Bogotá dialogue who bring me a message and we want to move towards an inclusive dialogue to strengthen Venezuelan democracy, to strengthen the internal dialogue for peace in Venezuela,” he said. in his mature moment.
The Venezuelan president even affirmed that Petro had become “the guarantor” of the dialogues in his country.
The Comptroller’s Office, says EFE, indicated, according to a document shared by Brito’s press team, that Machado is disqualified from holding positions of popular election, after a patrimonial investigation that violates “public ethics, administrative morality, the rule of law, peace and sovereignty” of Venezuela.
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Michael Gutierrez. EFE
The agency indicated that errors were determined, as well as omissions in the affidavits of assets, evaluated in the framework of the equity audit followed by Machado.
“Likewise, the existence of managed funds was determined to justify that they represented a percentage close to 50% of the managed funds in the evaluated period, made up of deposits and credit notes of unknown origin in national banks (…) and deposit operations and credit notes of unknown origin in foreign currency”, he added.
In its information, EFE recalls that the Comptroller’s Office pointed to Machado as a participant in the “corruption plot orchestrated” by former opposition deputy Juan Guaidó, which led to the “criminal blockade” of Venezuela, as well as the “blatant dispossession” of companies and wealth of the nation abroad, with the “complicity of corrupt governments.”
“The blockade requested by María Corina Machado, in collusion with the usurper Juan Guaidó, among others, has generated the kidnapping of 4,000 million dollars retained in the international banking system,” he said.
(In other news: Does the coalition Vargas Lleras spoke of against the Petro reforms have a future?)
In addition, he said that the anti-Chavista requested the application of sanctions and an “economic blockade” against the Caribbean nation that caused “damage to the health of the Venezuelan people.”
The Comptroller General did not specify from when this political disqualification began, since in 2015 the institution applied this measure for one year, arguing that Machado did not include “concepts” of a labor nature in his affidavit of assets, which prevented her at that time from running for the position of deputy of Parliament.
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