MADRID 31 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Opposition leader Edmundo González has appealed to the unity of Venezuelans to take office as president of Venezuela on January 10, the date on which the country’s Constitution establishes that the elected president must assume his duties.
A few hours before the start of the new year, González has asked all Venezuelans to continue together “with the commitment to enforce that mandate in 2025” and for January 10 to be “the day of hugging, in the streets of our country, among all Venezuelans without distinctions or vendettas”.
“That day is the opportunity to leave behind the words that promote hatred and division. It is the opportunity to move forward together, firmly and definitively, along the path of reunion and national unity,” he expressed in a message in the social network X the opposition leader, who is in exile in Spain.
The message is accompanied by a video in which statements by González and the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado alternate, and in which both have claimed the “longing for freedom, democracy and prosperity” that the people of Venezuela expressed in the presidential elections on July 28.
Machado has reminded Venezuelans who have a family member in exile or who are political prisoners “for working to make a better country.” Furthermore, he has claimed that “together, united as brothers”, Venezuelans have found “a way to overcome” all the obstacles that have been crossed in 2024 “to continue moving forward.”
In this sense, he has maintained that this year they have “worked very hard” building a political alternative to the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and has called for the role and responsibility of “everyone.” “Those inside and outside Venezuela, civilians, military, officials, children, young people, adults, everyone” will have their role in 2025, according to Machado.
González finished the video by sending “a fraternal hug” to every Venezuelan “in this 2025 that is about to begin.” “Let’s get ready, see you in the streets in January because you know, this is until the end. May God bless the men and women of good will on earth,” he concluded.