The PAN demanded that President Claudia Sheinbaum condemn the Government of Venezuela after the arrest this Thursday of opposition leader María Corina Machado after a protest.
“The Nicolás Maduro regime kidnapped María Corina Machado. They are a bunch of criminals, and Claudia Sheinbaum has decided to make a pact with those criminals,” Mariana Gómez del Campo, secretary of international affairs of the PAN and president of the Christian Democratic Organization of America (OCDA), denounced in a video message.
The opposition demanded that Sheinbaum not send representatives to Maduro’s inauguration this Friday after the Vente Venezuela (VV) party denounced that Machado was “violently intercepted” when leaving the demonstration she called this Thursday to defend the victory of Edmundo González Urrutia in the elections.
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) confirmed the arrest of the opposition leader and demanded her release.
“We must demand from the president of Mexico that not a single Mexican appear tomorrow in the act of usurpation of Nicolás Maduro, she cannot put Mexico on the wrong side of history,” said Gómez del Campo.
The opposition has questioned the position of Sheinbaum, who defended this Monday that a representative of his Government attend Maduro’s inauguration because “it is up to Venezuelans, not Mexico, to define” their Government.
The president justified now recognizing Maduro’s victory, questioned by the United States and the European Union (EU), despite the fact that in July, during the government transition in Mexico, she asked for “transparency” in the minutes and the vote.
Following his statements, Senator Lilly Téllez, of the PAN, presented an appeal in Congress for Sheinbaum to “reject the recognition of Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela and to express a clear and forceful condemnation of his dictatorship.”
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Other legislators also expressed their solidarity with Machado, such as the representative and former first lady Margarita Zavala.
“After the peaceful and always brave intervention of María Corina Machado, the Maduro dictatorship took her away in what is a clear kidnapping and attack on freedom,” Zavala commented on his social networks this Thursday.
Four months after his last public appearance and one day before the presidential inauguration, which both Maduro and González Urrutia promise to assume, Machado appeared on the street, as he had promised his followers last Tuesday, to demand, once again , the opposition victory in the July 28 elections.
With information from EFE
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