The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize whose Donald Trump, despite keeping Chavismo in power after the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, has spent a weekend in which she has continued to receive distinctions. He has not agreed to meet with either the President of the Government, or the King of Spain himself, Felipe VI, but he received the medal of the Community or the key to the city, from the hands of Isabel Díaz Ayuso or José Luis Martínez-Almeida, respectively.
However, this Monday, within the framework of his participation in an informative breakfast by the Forum Europe in the Spanish capital, Machado left some statements that hint at an accusation of lack of democratic rigor in elections held in Spain. Or at least that is what emerges from someone who has wished the Spaniards to have “impeccable elections.” Specifically, he hoped that Spain would have “the opportunity to have impeccable elections.”
“I have promised not to get involved in domestic politics”
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, after wishing that Spain would have “impeccable elections”
“My affections and preferences in this room and in this country, but I have promised not to get involved in domestic politics,” said the opposition leader, who has promised to return in the future to a Venezuela that, despite being under total American interference and tutelage, Trump himself has blessed the figure of the current president in charge, Delcy Rodríguez, and taken for granted that there will be no elections in the short or medium term horizon.
Accusation of Spanish interference in Venezuelan politics slides
This promise not to interfere in Spanish domestic politics has also been accompanied by another comment that slipped an accusation between the lines. “Although I believe that Spanish politics tried to get involved with ours in some other city in this country,” Machado continued, adding immediately that “as I said, I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but providential it certainly was.”
Machado has made this entire series of statements with the head of the opposition and leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez. However, despite the multiple winks, the opposition has avoided closing ranks around the former president of the Xunta de Galicia and has limited herself to wishing that the next generals in Spain can “allow the expression of a nation that advances and that accompanies the democratic cause in Latin America.”
