Venezuela, a concern for all democrats

Once again, Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela strikes the conscience of the international community and of democrats worldwide.

The illegitimate Supreme Court of Justice, subservient to the regime and established irregularly, without consideration for the Venezuelan Constitution, has resolved to disregard the legitimacy of the election of the leadership of the National Assembly by the 2020-2021 legislature that Juan Guaidó presides over today, elected by a large majority of its members last January. It has, simultaneously, declared as legitimate a leadership body headed by Luis Parra, which had received the support of a minority of Assembly members, and has attributed to it the constitutional and legal competences.

As can be seen, the National Assembly, the only space and legitimate institution in the context of an absence of rights, freedoms and guarantees in Venezuela today, has been subjected to a new assault by the authoritarian regime of Nicolás Maduro.

Our International, which groups socialist, social democratic and labour parties from different regions of the world, vigorously protests this new aggression against the only democratic and legitimate State institution in Venezuela, where today men and women, children, adults and the elderly suffer the consequences of misgovernment, repression, food shortages, and the absence of health services, which have led to millions of its citizens being forced to emigrate in inhumane conditions.

Our organisation equally raises its voice against the request of another obsequious institutional authority of the Venezuelan State, the attorney general, seeking to declare Voluntad Popular, one of our member parties in Venezuela, as a terrorist organisation. This party has participated in our activities for several years and we know well its founder Leopoldo López, Juan Guaidó, Freddy Guevara, as well as other leaders and members, with whom we have worked since the party’s creation, sharing with them our commitment and efforts to advance the freedoms and rights of our citizens, the strengthening of our democracies, opportunities for all and the practice of good government. We have no doubt that international public opinion will react decisively to any attempt to demonise or to destroy the voice of this political party, and in this we count with the concourse of all democrats in different countries of the world.

 

 

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Press coverage:

Internacional Socialista: “Venezuela es una preocupación de todos los demócratas”

Asamblea Nacional, presidenciave.com, 28 May 2020
Una vez más, el régimen de Nicolas Maduro en Venezuela golpea la consciencia de la comunidad internacional y de los demócratas del mundo entero. El ilégitimo Tribunal Supremo de Justicia en ese país, obsecuente al régimen y constituido de manera irregular y sin consideracióna la Constitución de Venezuela, ha resuelto desconocer la legitimidad de la elección de la Mesa Directiva de la Asamblea Nacional por la legislatura 2020-2021 que preside hoy Juan Guaidó, electo por una amplia mayoría de sus miembros en el pasado mes de enero... Read more

 

La IS volvió a denunciar al régimen de Maduro

Nuevos Papeles, 29 May 2020 
Bajo el título “Venezuela una preocupación de todos los demócratas”, la Internacional socialista emitió un comunicado donde denunció a Nicolás Maduro y al Tribunal Supremo de Justicia, por no reconocer la elección de la Mesa Directiva de la Asamblea Nacional. En referencia al TSJ, al que calificó de “obsecuente al régimen y constituido de manera irregular y sin consideración a la Constitución de Venezuela”, el documento  repudia desconocer “la legitimidad de la elección de la Mesa Directiva de la Asamblea Nacional por la legislatura 2020- 2021 que preside hoy Juan Guaidó, electo por una amplia mayoría de sus miembros en el pasado mes de enero” ... Read more