On Tuesday, a faction of the Venezuelan right made up of the parties Democratic Action (AD), Copei, Progressive Advancement (AP), Cambiemo and El Cambio, presented their unified campaign command called "Democratic Alliance."
At a press conference attended by representatives of these political parties, Javier Bertucci stressed the importance of this alliance in view of the upcoming electoral process and invited other sectors of the right to join this united effort, which he described as "perfect."
"Unity is not easy, but it is essential," he said, while assuring that this alliance will be maintained for the upcoming electoral processes for governors and mayors that correspond to 2021.
He explained that this alliance consists of the appointment of candidates in all electoral constituencies and voting lists for each of the parties, which will maintain the presence of their card on the electoral card.
Called to Capriles
On behalf of this alliance, Bertucci congratulated the position of electoral participation assumed by Henrique Capriles, whom he called to join this opposition formula.
"We applaud Capriles' recent position to participate and what we tell him is that the most sensible thing is to do it together," he said, recalling that it has been this sector of the right that has been betting on the electoral scenario "for a while now."
He said that "we still have time to expand this unity," and therefore extended the invitation to all sectors that want to join this partisan pact in view of the parliamentary elections.
Guaidó's route failed
Bertucci referred to the "route" proposed by Juan Guaidó and argued that the recent position taken by the European Union (EU) regarding the electoral process shows that this "interim presidency" plan failed.
"The route proposed by a sector of the opposition has been an absolute failure and the EU does not want to remain trapped in a dead-end option like the one proposed," he said, dismissing accusations of being "collaborators of the Government" for wanting to participate.
"They call us collaborators, but those who collaborate with the government are those who do not participate in elections and open the opportunity for them to control the National Assembly," he said.
He regretted that there are sectors of the right playing for abstention and others that bet on the division.
For his part, the general secretary of Copei Juan Carlos Alvarado took the opportunity to reject the inclusion of the name of this political awning among the signatories of Juan Guaidó's abstentionist plan and stressed that the green party will attend the electoral process.
