The head of the Venezuela Nuestra campaign command Jorge Rodriguez denounced on Tuesday that the four independent mayors who expressed their support for the candidacy of president Nicolas Maduro are being threatened by sectors of the opposition and have been accused of traitors. teleSUR correspondent Yunus Soner with the details. teleSUR
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00:00Jorge Rodríguez denounced on Tuesday that the four independent majors who expressed
00:04their support for the candidacy of President Nicolás Maduro are being threatened by sectors
00:09of the opposition and have been accused of traitors and announced that the National
00:13Assembly's Domestic Policy Commission will launch an in-depth investigation on these events.
00:18Tell us your correspondent Juno Zuner with the details.
00:21Jorge Rodríguez, coordinator, general coordinator of the Our Venezuela campaign for supporting
00:30President Nicolás Maduro, held a press conference on Tuesday. He announced that the National
00:36Assembly, whose chairman he also is, whose president he also is, will start an investigation
00:44with its domestic politics commission. The topic of the investigation are threats against
00:51oppositional mayors who had yesterday declared their support for actual president and candidate
00:59Nicolás Maduro in the coming elections on 28th of July. Jorge Rodríguez in detail presented
01:06how one of them, Pedro Antonio Abreu of the Rojas municipality in the state of Barinas,
01:13was threatened personally by phone calls as well as other phone calls who threatened
01:18his ill mother. That mayor was also threatened with graffiti that was placed on his wall
01:26calling him a traitor. Rodríguez said this incident will be investigated by the National
01:34Assembly and called also the public ministry to start a profound investigation. He also
01:40called upon international media organizations such as CNN, whom he called so-called defenders
01:47of human rights, to report on this kind of incidents. And he added that he asked the
01:53Carter Center, one US organization that will be here present during the elections, to open
02:00its eyes and to acknowledge and to remember these kinds of incidents as well as the UN
02:07panel that will be present here in the coming days until the elections. Rodríguez emphasized
02:14that these kinds of threats and these kinds of acts constitute acts of terrorism that
02:20serve the purpose on the oppositional side to keep other mayors who are fed up with the
02:26violence and with destabilization efforts and who want to have peace and who thus tend
02:32to support President Maduro as well. Such mayors are being kept in line by these threats,
02:40said Rodríguez, who said we know very well who is behind these acts of violence but we
02:46still want a profound investigation so that it becomes clear to everyone. Rodríguez also
02:53emphasized that basically these terror acts and this recurrence to violence happens because
03:00the oppositional forces, the extreme right, knows it has not the right and it has not
03:06the majority, thus it recurs to such acts of violence and threats using destabilizing
03:14Venezuela. But he said that he is confident that more and more mayors and other forces
03:22of the opposition will, as before yesterday, tend to support President Maduro in an attempt
03:31to achieve peace and stability and harmony within the country in the future as well.