Venezuela: María Corina Machado affirms that the days of Chavismo in power “are numbered”

The opposition leader of Venezuela María Corina Machado assured this Monday that the days of Chavismo in power “are numbered and there are not many,” despite the fact that last Friday Nicolás Maduro was inaugurated for a questioned third consecutive term, which the largest anti-Chavista coalition denounces as the consummation of a “coup d’état.”

“They in the regime know that they are few and that they are isolated, they know that their days in power are numbered and there are not many, that is why they are paranoid and do not sleep (…) knowing that their end is approaching and fearing being sold by any of the people around them,” he said in an audio posted on social networks.

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In the opinion of the former deputy, who claims the victory of Edmundo González Urrutia In the presidential elections on July 28, the world democratic left “abandoned” Chavismo, which – he assured – “will never show the records that prove its overwhelming defeat” in those elections.

“We know that this is the most difficult moment because here no one sucks their thumb, we know the risks and we have assumed them, that is why we are mounted in the ring (quadrilateral), fighting, hitting and receiving punches (blows) with determination that, if we don’t win in the first or second round, then we will win in the third or fourth, but we will win, because we already have them on the ropes,” he said.

In that sense, Machado pointed out that, “isolated as they are, they only have to try” to confuse and scare.

Maduro proclaimed himself the winner of the elections based on results that the National Electoral Council (CNE), controlled by Chavismo, has not yet published in a breakdown, contrary to what was established in the schedule approved by the institution for holding these elections. votes.

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For its part, the largest opposition coalition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – claims to have collected 85.18% of the “election records” that prove – it insists – that the winner was its candidate, González Urrutia, documents that Chavismo flagged as fake.

Machado said this Monday that “new actions” are coming and called on “everyone” to be “strong, ready, physically and mentally” for what he called the “winning round” and “defeat and evict from Miraflores (seat of the Presidency)” to Maduro. And he assured that “this regime was reduced to a criminal leadership, a small group of corrupt people who are burning all the resources they have left to resist as they can against a people that has them surrounded.”

“How are we going to be afraid of the tiger’s skin now? Now less than ever! We have defeated the regime, and I repeat, we have it on the ropes,” stressed the opposition leader, who insisted that “brave is not someone who is not is afraid, brave is he who overcomes fear.”

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The former representative affirmed that in “a fight like this”, the “main battle” is “fought in the minds and hearts of each one”, which means – she explained – that the “victory over fear is an act of the will.”

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He affirmed that Venezuelans have taken this fight to “its last chapter,” which, he added, is the “most difficult and dangerous.”

“We are mounted in the ring (quadrilateral), fighting, hitting and receiving a blow (hit) with the determination that if we do not win in the first and second round, then we will win in the third or fourth. But we will win,” Machado stated.

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