Diosdado Cabello said on Monday that Chavismo “will pass” in presidential elections scheduled for the second half of the year, although there is no specific date for them.

“We believe that at any time this year, Chavismo will overtake them and will inflict a crushing defeat on them in the elections,” the lawmaker said during the party’s weekly press conference.

He said that these expectations “have nothing to do with victory” or with the polls, which often put Chavismo in a losing position, but “with reality.”

He continued: “A great reality exists in the street: a divided opposition, divided into a thousand pieces, without definitions, hanging on hopes that will not be fulfilled.”

Cabello reiterated that María Corina Machado, who was elected last October in the primaries as the presidential candidate of the main opposition coalition, “remains to this day disqualified by the Office of the Comptroller General,” which prevents her from competing for elected positions.

Machado, within the framework of the Barbados Agreements between Chavismo and the Unitary Platform, has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider his sentence – valid until 2030 – and hopes to remove the obstacle to running in this race, which Chavismo has not yet determined. Filtered.

Although many Chavismo representatives confirmed that Nicolas Maduro would seek a third six-year term, on January 1, in a televised interview, he said that it was still “too early” to talk about his “possible candidacy.”

With information from EFE