MADRID 8 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The former presidential candidate for the Centrados party, Enrique Márquez, was arrested this Tuesday by Venezuelan security forces, just three days before the inauguration of Nicolás Maduro, according to the opposition party Voluntad Popular.
“We denounce that the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro kidnapped the former presidential candidate Enrique Márquez, in the midst of a wave of disappearances of leaders and Human Rights activists this Tuesday,” reads a statement from the anti-Chavista formation published on its profile on the social network X.
Likewise, he stressed that “Márquez, like the majority of Venezuelans, did not endorse Maduro’s fraud on July 28, 2024. “He has not committed any crime. We demand that he appear now and be released immediately,” he stressed. manifested.
Márquez, who was vice president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) between 2021 and 2023, ran in the 2024 elections along with nine other candidates, although the vote was presented at all times as a duel between Maduro and the opposition candidate Edmundo González. , who led the Democratic Unitary Platform coalition after the disqualification of opposition leader María Corina Machado.
Hours earlier, González, who went into exile to Spain after the presidential elections, denounced the arrest of his son-in-law, Rafael Tudares: “Rafael was heading to my 7 and 6-year-old grandchildren’s school, in Caracas, to drop them off for the start of classes, and hooded men, dressed in black, intercepted him, put him in a gold-colored truck, license plate AA54E2C, and took him away. “At this time, he is missing.”
At the end of July, Venezuela held presidential elections after which Maduro reaffirmed himself as the winner, although the opposition denied the results and claims to have the electoral records that support the triumph of González, who is wanted by the Venezuelan Justice, although he maintains that he will take office. from office on January 10.
The former presidential candidate, who is on an international tour, has assured that he has “no restrictions” on returning to Venezuela and that he will not reveal “neither the day nor the manner” in which he will return to his country.