2023-08-03 19:18:34
The former vice president of the National Commission for Primaries (CNdP), María Carolina Uzcátegui, assured that the reason for her resignation from the body for internal opposition elections was the lack of clarity about the process and warned that the exercise of the right to vote had been abandoned in the country. real politics.
“There was no conspiracy or payment. Here they prefer to kill the messenger and not understand that we need an agreement. There are no political responses, anyone who thinks differently is disqualified (…) I have said on multiple occasions that the primary is and continues to be an alternative But I do not agree that people are not told about the complexity of this process,” he said.
“Do we have the political answers that the country needs?”, he asked himself. “We don’t have them, because in Venezuela they stopped doing politics, they abandoned the exercise of real politics, to take up the exercise of rhetoric, of unfulfilled promises, of disappointment to the population and that is something in which I could not continue committing myself, it is something in which I felt that I would not be able to have the face to look at the country with a lie, one more disappointment, “he said.
He also questioned on the “Kicosis” program, broadcast by Globovisión: “Should we hold primaries where everyone cannot participate? Why is there no political response to uncertainty? For example, with disqualified candidates”.
Uzcátegui specified that Venezuela needs political agreements and recognition between the different actors to obtain the answers that the majority of the population is looking for.
“I did not want to resign to gain notoriety. I am not the focus of attention here. The focus of attention is the need for political agreements and acknowledgments between the different actors so that Venezuela has answers as Barinas did. Nobody told Barinas what he had to do; however, at the time there was enough political maturity to set personal interests aside. Mr. (Freddy) Superlano, who won the elections, put forward a proposal and met with the other political factors in the region, but they never said we are going to abandon politics,” he said.
María Carolina Uzcátegui reiterated that “the primary is an important process, it is a very decisive step for what is the mobilization of the country and the return of participation, but I will not agree with a process in which it is not telling the country all the level of complications that it is having to carry it out, so that it is a primary as inclusive and as participatory as the people deserve and above all, where there is a true political response that the country requires at this time ” .
The former vice president of the CNP revealed that “on many occasions we discussed the need to participate or not with the National Electoral Council (CNE), but when the letters were presented to the CNE requesting a response to many of the concerns that we had, the CNE kept silence and what we found out two weeks later was that all the rectors had resigned”.
“I do not doubt that there are 3,126 proposed voting centers, but how many of them have been verified, how many of them have gone to the site to find out if they really exist or not. Beyond that, how many plans must be set up to cover 30% of open-air centers, logistics, material distribution, the number of people needed to work in what is a primary process, ”he said .
He also explained that “they (members of the CNdP) speak of 5 thousand tables. We are talking about 3 officials for each table, with two substitutes each, we are talking about 15 thousand people just as table members, plus all the witnesses. Where is the money to be able to give the logistics to all that? Let’s assume that all that appears. Do polling stations really exist? Have they been verified yet?”
“You have to find a way for the country to trust again that it can be a factor of change (…) All these disagreements that the opposition continues to have do not add up to that. We cannot continue to allow abstention to be an alternative through which people believe that they will reach a solution to the problem,” said Uzcátegui.
In another order of ideas, he confirmed that he had a meeting with the governor of Zulia state, Manuel Rosales.
“I met in Maracaibo with Governor Rosales, it was not a secret meeting, many people attended (…) There was no conspiracy or payment or anything,” he said.
He ended the interview by assuring that “Venezuela requires the participation of all Venezuelans, here we are all of us who are going to give the country answers. Here we are the ones who are going to build that Venezuela that we deserve”. Likewise, Jesús Casal, president of the CNP, expressed respect for him. “He is an honorable man,” he added.
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