By: Aporrea.org
/ Prensa Marea Socialista | Tuesday,
April 24th, 2018 09:02 AM |
GONZALO GÓMEZ, from MAREA SOCIALISTA
Gonzalo Gómez belongs to the National
Directive Board of the Political Movement Marea Socialista. Regarding the
recent electoral regulations given by the Venezuelan Electoral Authority, the
Electoral National Council (CNE in its Spanish accronym), his political
organization considers antidemocratic banning the messages in favor of the
abstention in spite of exhorting the Venezuelan people to vote.
The Special Rules for the Electoral
Propaganda in the Media, approved by the CNE, and introduced by its authorities
will rule the Venezuelan presidential elections of 2018. According to Gonzalo
Gómez they continue a line of violation of the electoral rights adopted by the
Venezuelan National Constituent Assembly (ANC in its Spanish Accronym), the
Venezuelan Government and the very self electoral entity. It’s controlled by
Nicolás Maduro’s government according to Gómez.
However, “This is actually not new.
The General Rule is a Resolution approved by the National Electoral Council, in
a session celebrated on January 18th, 2013”, Gonzálo Gomez stressed.
The CNE President has reminded that, “the propaganda that discourages the free exercise to the vote is fobidden”. The Article 204 of the LOPRE General Rule, regarding the non allowed electoral propaganda includes on its numeral 7 those propagandas that…”Discourage the exercise to the right to vote”. For us, this provision violates the right to the freee awareness and to express it. (Art. 64 Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) within a country where voting is not a mandatory act.
Gonzálo Gómez represents the
political movement Marea Socialista. He unpinned from the VenezuelanUnited
Socialist Party (PSUV in its Spanish Accronym) in year 2014, and he always kept
a critic position within PSUV. Gonzalo Gómez participated in yezr 2007 in the
foundation of the main officialist party of the current Venezuelan government,
as a preexistent current. “We think this is highly ambiguous. All kind of
interpretations might arise, aimed at restricting every political freedom”. We
disagree with the argument that seeks to give that the right to abstain is an
individual issue of each voter. In a democracy, the position of the citizens
can be assumed collectively, aimed at making a social forcé around their
positions and purposes”, Gómez added.
“Marea Socialista doesnt’ share the
call for abstention. We perceive that there there is an interventionist agenda
behind this exhortation by the right opposition. However, there are people of
the Chavismo who are also dissapointed. There are also people from the critic
left, with their right to remonstrate these elections. That is a matter of
political opinión and awareness. This is not something to be forbidden”,
Gonzalo Gómez affirmed.
In several occassions, sectors from the
left and social movements of fight assumed abstentionist positions (such as in
the 4th Republic). The former President Chávez did similar with the Bolivarian
Movement for some time.
“For us, those who actually
discourage the right to vote are not those who denounce the elections due to the
lack of guarantees and the arbitrary, illegitimate and illegal electoral
handling, but those who commit such violations, subdue the people to conditions
of privation of their rights and then pretend to force the people to vote by
the authors of such abuses”, the leader of Marea Socialista added.
“Marea Socialista exhorts to vote.
This time we support the presidential candidacy of Reinaldo Quijada (From UPP
89). We aspire to postulate within the frame of this Alliance the men and women
candidates to councils. We make this call, not because we believe that these
forecoming elections be clean, but because we firmly believe that the best way to
defend the people’s rights is their very own exercise of them. This, in spite
of the limitations and obstacles imposed from the elites of power. Therefore,
as citizens we do not decline in the exercise of our right to choose, to elect
and being elected. That’s why we are in favor of using the tiniest democratic
scraps left. We think this is favorable for the fight”.
However, according to Gómez it is
evident that “the electoral system ought to be reformed. The electoral power
must be renewed, in order to restore the electoral rights and guarantees of the
Venezuelan people. The fundamental problem is, it is seized by the Venezuelan
government. This leads to prove uncapable to stop the official advantage”.
"I’d also like to remind you
that Marea Socialista could not start its legalization process because of whim by
the CNE. According to CNE, our political
movement was not a denomination of a party with political aims. For this reason
we had to turn up before the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ in its Spanish
accronym). The TSJ after having summoned a unique audience, has not issued any
decision to preserve our right after two years. Thus, they grant Maduro one of
the alternative names we had already reserved, and they had denied to us. We
had postulated the name of SOMOS. This evidences the official advantage we are
denouncing”, Gonzalo Gómez pointed out.
Gómez tops off: “It’s mandatory to
assure and to put ahead the real, full and free individual and social
participation in the processes, specially the ones corresponding the social
comptrollership, the transparency and the abolition of the advantage an the
governmental beaurocratic-governmental manipulation. Also from those who own
capital goods and transform the elections into commerce and a matter of money:
Out of reach of the working class, the peasants por, the popular communities
and the indigenous peoples. They are understood by its authentic sense and not
of the usurpation of its place by those who seize the power”.
“In order to accomplish this, it’s
also necessary to restablish the full enforcement of the Venezuelan
Constitution. It’s being extinguished by the current authoritary government.
It’s frankly also threatened by the old right wing that aspires to rule again”,
Gonzalo Gómez, from the political movement Marea Socialista, concludes.
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