“We are going to win by hook or by crook”, is the phrase that, in reference to the upcoming 2024 presidential elections, the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has launched during a commemoration event, this Sunday, February 4, for the anniversary of the failed coup attempt led by Hugo Chávez in 1992.
Convened at the Miraflores Palace, where Maduro's followers gathered, the ruler took the opportunity to warn his political adversaries that“the team wins and we are going to win by hook or by crook”.
With his words, Maduro leaves open the possibility for the theories that have taken place over the years about Venezuelan electoral periods, where the results have been put under scrutiny and the ruler branded as fraudulent.
Despite the complaints, Maduro has once again said that of the 30 electoral processes that have been carried out during the Chávez government and his own regime, they have won in 28.
For example, themaneuvers of the Venezuelan regime have currently prevented María Corina Machado, the opposition candidate, to appear in this year's elections due to a ban on holding public office for 15 years that the Comptroller's Office imposed on him in 2015.
Machado has been the target of attacks by pro-government forces,before and after his victory in the primary elections held on Sunday, October 22, 2023, whereThe leader swept 552,430, well above her closest rival, former deputy Carlos Prosperi, who obtained 28,153 supports..
Machado's victory was very promising for the opposition, which managed to move forward with the process and choose a unity candidate, but it left open the big question of disqualification, a card played by the ruler Nicolás Maduro to prevent the counterforce in the next elections.
The convictions for this court decision were immediate.The United States, for example, revoked some relief measures it had granted for Venezuelan oil operations. These relief measures were part of the endorsement of an agreement between the Maduro regime and the opposition to hold transparent and open elections.
In fact, referring to his main opponents, Maduro has said that“Whatever they put it to us, we always go out to win”.
During the last elections held in Venezuela, in November 2021, Chavismo secured victory in the regional elections after winning 18 governorships, including the mayor of Caracas. Election day showed a high abstention, close to 60%, which revealed citizen fatigue.
The National Electoral Council of Venezuela indicated that participation in the elections was 41.80%, which is equivalent to about 8.1 million people who voted.
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