More than three months after Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election, revolutionary and left-wing organisations inside the country continue demanding the National Electoral Council (CNE) publish the election results. According to the CNE, incumbent president Nicolás Maduro won with more than 51% of the votes. However, the right-wing opposition disputes this, claiming alleged voting centre tally sheets indicate victory for its candidate, Edmundo González. Given conflicting claims, publishing the results is not only a legal requirement but essential to verifying who won. With the Maduro government refusing to do so, leftists such as Partido Comunista de Venezuela ( https://x.com/PCV_Venezuela ) (PCV, Communist Party of Venezuela) leader Neirlay Andrade say it “is crossing a line of no return and rapidly imposing a reactionary regime.”
For this reason, various left-wing and progressive groups set up the Frente Democrático Popular ( https://xn--frente%20democrtico%20popular-unc/ ) (Popular Democratic Front, FDP) in the wake of the elections. Among them are the PCV, Patria Para Todos–Alternativa Popular Revolucionaria (Homeland For All-Revolutionary Popular Alternative), REDES (Networks), the Bloque Historico Popular (Popular Historic Bloc), La Otra Campaña (The Other Campaign), Voces Antiimperialistas (Anti-imperialist Voices), Movimiento Alternativo Popular (Alternative Popular Movement), Centrados en la Gente (Focused on the People), EnComún (In Common) and the Frente Nacional de Lucha de la Clase Trabajadora (National Front of Working Class Struggle). To find out more about this new formation and how they characterise the current situation, Federico Fuentes interviewed Andrade for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal ( https://links.org.au/ ). As well as being an FDP spokesperson, Andrade is also a PCV Political Bureau member and editor of its newspaper, Tribuna Popular ( https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/ ). Read the interview here https://links.org.au/venezuelan-communist-neirlay-andrade-authoritarian-regime-never-better-option -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33527): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33527 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109531027/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
