“We are showing that we really want this plan to move forward, we want to coordinate and facilitate, with our main ally, the United States government, the success of this strategy,” he said.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado showed this Saturday (23) confidence in the plan of United States President Donald Trump, which will lead to elections in Venezuela, in which she said she will participate.
Following the January 3 capture of then-president Nicolás Maduro by the United States army, Trump announced that Washington would establish a plan to hold elections. Since then, Venezuela has been governed by interim president Delcy Rodriguez, Maduro’s former vice president.
“We are showing that we really want this plan to move forward, we want to coordinate and facilitate, with our main ally, the United States government, the success of this strategy,” said María Corina in Panama.
“We understand that, to favor, monitor and facilitate this plan, it is necessary for this process to culminate as a phase in a presidential electoral process,” he added.
María Corina will participate today in a public event in Panama with the Venezuelan diaspora. On Monday (25), she will be received by President José Raúl Mulino and will visit the Assembly of Deputies.
“Here there is an objective, which is to liberate our country, a purpose, the transition to democracy through free and fair presidential elections, in which all Venezuelans vote (…) Today, here, we ratify this purpose”, indicated the opponent. “I will be a candidate,” she added.
Panama keeps the minutes of the election that, according to the Venezuelan opposition, gave victory to opponent Edmundo González Urrutia, an ally of María Corina, in 2024, when Maduro proclaimed himself the winner and part of the international community did not recognize the official results.
González Urrutia delivered, in the presence of six Latin American foreign ministers and a dozen former presidents, thousands of minutes during a visit he carried out in January 2025 to the Central American country. Chavismo, in power in Venezuela, disregarded these documents.
