The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, referred this Saturday to the opposition Antonio Ecarri, candidate for the Presidency, as “a scourge (an annoyance)” for insisting on holding a debate forward of the presidential elections on July 28. , during which eight different candidates may also compete.
In keeping with Maduro, the usual bearer of the Alianza Lápiz occasion insisted on the controversy final Thursday, in the course of the signing of an settlement to acknowledge the results of the elections within the Nationwide Electoral Council (CNE).
«Are you aware Ecarri? (…) We have been signing the doc on the CNE, (…) I used to be sitting right here and so they seated me on the blessed Ecarri right here (subsequent to me). Forgive me for my phrase, what an annoying man, he is a cunt,” he stated.
The opposition candidate, the president continued, whispered “Maduro, let’s debate” a number of instances, and once more on the finish of the occasion, when the pinnacle of state was already leaving the electoral physique.
“He got here again (and stated) ‘Maduro, let’s debate’, and I rotated and informed him: ‘Look, Ecarri, you’ll be able to’t stand a spur on me (a blow {that a} rooster offers with its spurs), buddy, keep nonetheless.’ ‘”, stated the Chavista chief, who invited the opposition chief to go to the favelas earlier than asking for a debate.
Ecarri, along with Maduro, was one of many eight presidential candidates who, on Thursday, signed an settlement that obliges them to acknowledge the end result that the governing physique of the elections broadcasts after the votes are counted, with out leaving room for attainable claims.
These absent have been Enrique Márquez, from the Centrados occasion, and Edmundo González Urrutia, normal bearer of the principle anti-Chavista coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), who questioned this doc, which contemplates, as they defined, factors already agreed upon beforehand, reminiscent of the popularity of the end result.
Ecarri criticized the absence of each opponents on Friday, and warranted that the settlement is the start of a “new democratic stage” within the nation. EFE
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