President Daniel Noboa clarified that Ecuador currently does recognize the Government of Nicolás Maduro and said that he does not agree that there are no free elections in Venezuela.
People participate in an opposition demonstration in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on January 23, 2024.
President Daniel Noboa expressed this Tuesday, January 30, that he will not recognize the result of the next elections in Venezuela, which do not yet have a defined date, “since they have not been free elections.”
“We do not agree, at all (…), that there are no free elections in Venezuela, but at this moment it is not that we do not recognize the Government of (Nicolás) Maduro,” he said in an interview with Ecuavisa television. .
The president stressed that they will not recognize the result of the next elections, “since they have not been free elections.”
Noboa made the clarification because in an interview with the Colombian network NTN24, Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld had said that “Ecuador does not recognize the Maduro Government.”
Last Saturday, the Government of Ecuador rejected the political disqualification decided on Friday by the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela against the opposition presidential candidate María Corina Machado.
“Ecuador rejects the confirmation of the Supreme Court of Venezuela to disqualify, for 15 years, from exercising public functions, Mrs. María Corina Machado, opposition leader and winner of the October 2023 primary elections,” the Foreign Ministry stated on Saturday. Ecuadorian in your X network account.
He added that this “decision is contrary to the spirit of the Barbados agreements, aimed at facilitating the holding of democratic and transparent elections in Venezuela.”
For its part, the Venezuelan Government has assured that Machado’s case is “res judicata” but has also stated that it will remain at the dialogue table with the opposition, which accuses him of having violated the agreements signed in Barbados last October.
