Venezuelan movement condemns Maduro’s order to suspend referendum: “Frightened by citizens’ response”

The National Electoral Council, which is controlled by Chavismo, announced last night the rules for collecting signatures calling for a referendum against Maduro. To implement the recall process against the dictator, as decided on January 26, the opposition must collect more than 4 million signatures in 12 hours, five people per minute.

For the Venezuelan Movement for Withdrawal (MOVER) The process established by CNE is impossible And violates its own rules dictated by the body to regulate it.

“Maduro is frightened by the response of determined citizens to our effort and has ordered his rectors to stop voting., Confirmed the main promoter group of the recall.

For the trio, determination was abrupt, secretive and improved. “The regime is once again showing its dishonest face by planning this crime, frustrated by the growing interest of citizens in participating in the recurring referendum,” he added in a statement.

He further warned:These bloodstained hands are bloodstains, which is further evidence that the International Criminal Court should include in the records of human rights violations committed by Maduro and his entourage.

Political scientist Nicmer Evans and Community Christian leader César Pérez Vivas have sent an email to the Supreme Court’s election chamber asking the Venezuelan Movement for the Recall (MOVER) to reconsider the CNE’s decision.

Although both the CNE and the tribunal viewed the regime’s decisions as close events and operators by critics and opponents, Pérez and Evans said at an online press conference that they were seeking their constitutional right to withdraw.

CNE “closes the possibility of proving” to the Venezuelan people, Perez said. “What happened last night was a demonstration that Mr. Nicolas Maduro did not want to say,” he said in a popular consultation.

He pointed out that people would not be invited to sign on January 26th There are 12 hours and 1,200 centers across the country to reach the target of 4.2 million signatures, the locations of which are not yet known.

According to opinion polls 7 out of 10 people in Venezuela express their desire for change, A referendum is an instrument considered by the Constitution to revoke the order of an officer who has completed half of his term.

Questions

“What fear, #Maduro? You did not allow even a few signatures (…). Dictatorship does not care about form, ”opposition leader Juan Quito wrote on Twitter., When questioning the conditions set for the Rubrix collection.

“It is a farce to announce 1,200 collection centers (…) for demonstrations of will so that 20 million citizens can exercise their right. It’s like putting 1,000 liters of water in a 5 – liter container, ”said Caesar Perez Vivas, one of Maduro’s recall promoters.

“It’s not possible. Five voters a minute, for 12 hours, must be processed without error, on all machines in the country,” said Roberto Beacon, rector of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE). On his Twitter account. He also pointed out that there is no time to inform citizens about the defined signature collection points this weekend.

“Without software audits that guarantee the integrity and inviolability of the process, the process would be carried out without the time to name witnesses at 1,200 points and without biosecurity measures. If there was a call, 300 people would line up at the top of Omigron,” Beacon said.. For all these reasons, Rector kept his vote (reserved) before the process because “this is not possible”.

Opposition parties have stated they will not run for office until Maduro’s first term in office in 2018 (2013-2019). It was the only monument faced by the late former president Hugo Chavez in 2004 and he won by a landslide victory by almost 20 points.

“They are not only refusing to recall the practice, but are burying all attempts by the government and the CNE to sacrifice even Parinas to wash their faces. It is an extremely crude maneuver,” analyst Benigno Alarcon said, referring to the January 9 re-election of governors in Chavez’s homeland. won.

The CNE was restructured last year as a result of negotiations that opened the door to officials close to the opposition, although it was controlled by Savismo.

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