The
Organization of American States (OAS)
passed a resolution to condemn the decisions of Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to suspend the directives of two opposition parties to replace them with leaders accused of being related
to the government of Nicolás Maduro.
The resolution was approved this Friday in a virtual session of the Permanent Council with 21 votes in favor, none against, seven abstentions – one of them from Argentina – and six absences. After the decision,
Juan Guaidó
He expressed in his Twitter account: “Today the dictatorship received a hard blow: the rejection of 21 countries in the OAS.”
The text also rejected the designation of members of the National Electoral Council made by the TSJ, the highest court in Venezuela; a decision that corresponds by law to the National Assembly, the only power controlled by the opposition.
According to the Venezuelan opposition,
decisions threaten the development of parliamentary elections
that must be held this year, but that do not yet have a call date.
The signatories-Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, United States, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia, Uruguay and the representative of the Venezuelan parliamentary leader Guaidó- also expressed that
“This type of action constitutes an obstacle to the restoration of democracy in Venezuela.”
At the OAS, the seat in Venezuela is occupied by a delegate appointed by Guaidó, recognized by more than 60 countries as the country’s interim president, considering that Maduro’s second term is illegitimate due to irregularities in the 2018 elections.
After last week
the TSJ suspended by two rulings the directive of the opposition parties Acción Democrática and Primero Justicia,
Guaidó warned that the parliamentary elections could have the same fate as the presidential elections in which Maduro obtained his second term.
Guaidó celebrated the resolution and expressed in his Twitter account: “Latin America rejects a simulation of an electoral arbitrator appointed by a court kidnapped by Maduro.”
America rejects a simulation of an electoral arbitrator appointed by a court kidnapped by Maduro, as well as rejects the dictator. Today the dictatorship received a hard blow: the rejection of 21 countries in the OAS. 0 Votes (ZERO) in favor. No one will recognize a new farce.
https://t.co/B2AOKTb7Je
& – Juan Guaidó (@jguaido)
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During the virtual session this Friday, the United States ambassador to the OAS, Carlos Trujillo, celebrated the approval of the resolution and accused the TSJ of seeking “to replace the leadership of the opposition parties with followers of Maduro.”
The representative of Colombia, Alejandro Ordóñez, accused the Venezuelan government of “instrumentalizing” the court to designate “amanuenses of the regime.” According to him, the court’s decision is a “hard blow to the expectations and efforts that many states have for the holding of new elections.”
Argentina, Belize, Granada, Guyana, Mexico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago abstained in the vote
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Nicaragua, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines were absent.
The Mexican ambassador, Luz Elena Baños, criticized that “the main political forum in the hemisphere continues to promote resolutions that systematically depart from multilateral practice and that do not favor progress in the construction of effective agreements for a solution in Venezuela.”
Meanwhile, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza criticized the OAS, saying that the organization is nothing more than “a series of rubble piled up in a corner of Washington, whose inevitable final destination is the dustbin of history.” And he sentenced, via Twitter: “Too bad, a multilateral organization pulverized by servility.”
Agencia AFP
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