Above photo: The president of the Venezuelan National Assembly and PSUV deputy, Jorge Rodríguez, in a press conference, calling Chavista forces to demonstrate on Tuesday, July 30, to ensure peace in Venezuela. Venezuelan National Assembly.
The president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, called on supporters of the Chavista revolutionary movement to mobilize this Tuesday in the streets of Caracas to ensure the peace of the country and the electoral victory of President Nicolás Maduro and to reject the violence unleashed by the extremist opposition that refuses to recognize the results of the National Electoral Council and the will of the Venezuelans.
“We call on all our people to march tomorrow at two in the afternoon from Petare to Miraflores, also from Catia, La Vega, and El Valle to celebrate our victory, but above all, to defend the peace of the republic,” Rodríguez said during a speech on Monday, July 29, from the Federal Legislative Palace in Caracas.
In addition, Rodriguez called on all revolutionary forces to carry out large marches in the other states of Venezuela.
“Tomorrow, we will be on the streets; tomorrow, we will be there by the thousands, from the four cardinal points that came out on the day of the presidential race closing rally … we are going to Miraflores to defend our right to life, to freedom, and above all, to defend the result of the election,” he added.
Convocamos al pueblo de Venezuela a grandes marchas desde este martes para celebrar la victoria y defender la paz de la República. El fascismo no recurre a elecciones, solo fue una excusa para desarrollar su agenda violenta y no lo vamos a permitir. ¡Se volvieron a equivocar! pic.twitter.com/p7xgAQ1SDV
— Jorge Rodríguez (@jorgerpsuv) July 29, 2024
The president of parliament emphasized that Venezuelans should take to the streets to guarantee peace, even those who voted against President Nicolás Maduro.
“The candidate you voted for is the one who is organizing all these acts of violence, along with his boss, which they have tried to unleash with a focus of violence in the capital city and other cities in the country,” he explained.
Far-right violence
Rodríguez denounced that the extreme right opposition never had an electoral proposal or project for Venezuela; on the contrary, its plan was always to generate violence.
“The call for the election was an excuse to be able to develop the phase of the plan that they had been preparing for quite some time,” he said.
“Their project is not electoral,” said Rodríguez. “Fascism does not resort to elections except as an end to try to impose its violent proposal, and that has been the case since Hitler and Mussolini. Their proposal is violence and aggression, as they are doing today.”
Jorge Rodríguez also attacked technology magnate Elon Musk, who dared to say that the electoral process was tainted and even posted inaccurate and misleading videos on his social media network, X, that were circulated by opposition figures in an attempt to tarnish the electoral process.
“Mr. Musk, in Venezuela elections are automated, there are no voting booths,” recalled Rodríguez. “In Venezuela, people vote with voting machines …”
Attack on electronic vote transmission
The head of the Our Venezuela campaign staff also spoke out against the hacking attacks suffered by the National Electoral Council (CNE) data transmission system on Sunday night.
“They attacked the CNE’s transmission center,” Rodríguez stated. “Its website has received millions of attacks so far, but they specifically attacked the centers through which the data with the results and voting records pass,” he said.
Rodríguez explained that the intention was to prevent the CNE from issuing its bulletin and announcing the results.
“If they had succeeded in that, which was their main plan, then the violence they are trying to sow today would have occurred yesterday,” said Rodríguez.