Former
Spanish Foreign Minister Jaime Mayor, was certainly not very
diplomatic or political this morning in talking about the upcoming Venezuelan
elections. Mayor, who is in the country as part of an advanced team for the
electoral observation mission of the European Community was quite blunt in the
words he used in an interview for Globovision.
Mayor
began by saying that the upcoming election required a wide, full and profound
international observation because in his words “Venezuela
is at a crossroads for liberty” and that Europe
needs to pay attention to a process that “has very little of being democratic”.
He called the country’s current situation was not normal and that he coincides
with the concern by most Venezuelans. He expressed his concern more for the
excesses of the campaign than for the technical aspects and worried about
things like Chavez saying he plans to stay until 2021 or that the Armed Forces
are “roja, rojita”.
He continued by talking about how the
a language of hate is being used to annul the adversary and how he has little
faith in the expressions of love offered by some, in a clear reference to
President Chavez’ now forgotten love campaign.
He added that he met President Chavez
and he has changed and “it gives us pain to see how he conducts himself in the exercise
of democracy”. He said that in his opinion, Chavez is going beyond what a
democratic ruler can do and the solution is in the ballot box: “Venezuela can
not be overrun by authoritarism”
He closed by saying that the
process going on in Venezuela
will not survive and “democracy will return”.
Mayor met yesterday with Rosales as
part of the European Mission and will meet today with the CNE. That is, if he
is not kicked out, declared undesirable or banned from observing the upcoming
elections by the Government. While I do think he went a little far, it is a little comforting to know that he
is leading the EU observation in the upcoming Presidential elections.
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