self-proclaimed “acting president” in 2019, the former chief of the Parliament supported by the United States and its allies, including France, has never managed to win against Nicolas Maduro.
by Marie Delcas (bogota, correspondent)
Exit Juan Guaido. The “self -proclaimed acting president of Venezuela” is released by his own camp. The opponents who, in 2019, had propelled the former chief of the Parliament to the front of the political scene have just ended the “interim government”. Despite Washington’s active support, Mr. Guaido failed to supplant, or even weaken President Nicolas Maduro. Elected in 2013 and re -elected in 2018, during a contested ballot, the latter is preparing to celebrate his ten years of power.
If the failure of the strategy implemented by the opposition four years ago is obvious, the sidelining of Mr. Guaido is not unanimous within him. More divided than ever, his leaders have his eyes – and the ambitions – riveted on the presidential election of 2024.
Three opposition parties have spoken out in favor of the elimination of the acting government: ACCION DEMOGRIICA (AD, Democratic Action), Primero Justicia (PJ, justice first) and a nuevo tiempo (Unt, a new time). In a statement published Tuesday, December 27, these parties – called G3 – justify their position, considering that “from an ethical point of view, the acting government was the framework of corruption scandals”. “From a political point of view, they add, they have ceased to be useful for the democratization of Venezuela and has no interest in the eyes of citizens.”
On social networks, the reactions are lively. Part of the opponents consider that by ousting Mr. Guaido, the G3 de facto recognizes legitimacy and makes the game of the “Maduro dictator”. Others recall that “the acting president” has never been that the party pawn who today betrays him.
International consequences
Number of Venezuelans say their weariness in the face of what they perceive as political battles, without impact on their daily life. According to the polls published in recent months, the opposition and its leaders are as discredited in public opinion as the Chavistes in power. And Juan Guaido has become even more unpopular than Nicolas Maduro.
When he is sworn in on January 10, 2019 for a second term, opposition deputies, who are in the majority in the National Assembly and who dispute the 2018 election, affirm that there “has usurpation of the to be able to “. They then push the deputy Juan Guaido, whom they have just elected president of the Chamber to assume the presidency of the acting Republic “in accordance with the Constitution”. The political maneuver is validated by the United States and its main allies, including France, who recognize Juan Guaido as a legitimate president of Venezuela. The opposition deputies will refuse the following year to recognize the legitimacy of the legislative election. They therefore continue to sit, virtually. Many of them were forced to go into exile.
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