With a likely low presence of strong leaders given the discredit of the election, the inauguration on this Friday (10) will be attended by the (Workers’ Party) and the (Landless Rural Workers’ Movement).
The president’s party will send Camila Moreno, who makes up the party’s national executive board. The day before, also in the capital, she participated in a meeting of the Foro de São Paulo, a group of left-wing parties in the region.
The MST, one of the most vocal allies of the Chavista regime in Brazil, will be represented by João Pedro Stedile, the main name of the movement and member of the national coordination, and by a delegation of around ten other militants who are now in Venezuela.
Other smaller groups will also send representatives to Friday, such as Cebrapaz (Brazilian Center for Solidarity with People and Fight for Peace). Two members of the group will attend, including president José Reinaldo de Carvalho.
From the Brazilian government, representation will be lean. O, Glivânia Maria de Oliveira. It is a message to the regime, but the dictatorship’s message also reached Brazil: so far Caracas has not sent any formal invitation for Lula to attend the inauguration, something that is customary in these cases.
From Brasília, the announcement of sending the diplomat, says an interlocutor involved, would have the objective of reinforcing Brazil’s message that the regime needs to open up to dialogue, publish the electoral records and, in particular, provide safe conduct for six opposition asylum seekers living in the Argentine embassy, currently under the care of Brazil, leave the country safely. None of the three things were done.
The . In a statement at the time, the party said that it would be “important for President Nicolás Maduro, now re-elected, to continue dialogue with the opposition, in order to overcome Venezuela’s serious problems, largely caused by illegal sanctions.”
This is different from what the Lula government said, which did not, and should not, call Maduro a re-elected president, but maintains the relationship at a bilateral level and should not recognize the opponent as victorious, as neighbors like Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay did. and even Joe Biden’s United States.
Gustavo Petro’s Colombia, which also did not recognize Maduro, in a similar vein indicated that it is most likely to send its ambassador to the country for the inauguration. But, unlike what happened with Lula, Petro would have been formally invited, said Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo, so there is still an expectation that the president will change his mind and attend.
In Mexico, which, President Claudia Sheinbaum said she will not go, but will send a representative, and did not make it clear whether it will be someone from her team or the Mexican ambassador in Caracas himself.
In September, Maduro announced the start of , the largest in the country and the one that links it to Brazil.
There is wide expectation for the dictator’s inauguration, who would remain in power for another six years. The previous day, Thursday (9), the opposition and regime called for protests, raising fears of tension and repression.
Opponent Edmundo González, who ran against Maduro in the election after the leader was disqualified, says he will go to the country on the 10th to be sworn in. Independent checking projects and leading bodies such as . He has lived in exile in Madrid since September, and the dictatorship has said that if he sets foot on Venezuelan soil he will be arrested.
