Jorge Rodriguez | “We, the people of Venezuela are not going to permit it”
The President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, offers statements on the electoral win of President Nicolas Maduro and the allegations of fraud from the far-right. teleSUR
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00:00Let's go live to Caracas, Venezuela, where the President of the National Assembly, Jorge
00:05Rodríguez, is offering statements.
00:06Let's listen.
00:07In the presidential elections of 2024, as in all these press conferences that we have
00:18made in other occasions, we talked about briefly the development of the electoral event and
00:27we also shared with the millions, with the means of communications, the experience that
00:32we lived in this event.
00:36And even when we talk about the strong results of yesterday, this press conference follows
00:48to denounce something that is much different from the spirit of the Venezuelan people that
00:55was expressed yesterday, the Venezuelan people.
00:59It's about the violent extremists of the far right.
01:03The plan of fascism in Venezuela never was a proposal, an electoral project.
01:13It was an excuse, the summon to the event, to be able to develop the face of the plan
01:21which they have prepared for a long time.
01:24And they also were saying it in some moments.
01:27They say that during the development of the electoral campaign, they decided not to participate
01:40and that the candidates will present before they see a need to sign a commitment to recognize
01:46the results, a compromise, a commitment that before, during, and afterwards, there would
01:54be no events of violence and a commitment to respect among the participating factors
02:03in this electoral process the results, profound, strongly, of the decision of our people of
02:13bearing definitively of fascism that have characterized a sector of the political situation
02:23of Venezuela.
02:24And this is the consequence of years of fight of the Venezuelan people against the actions,
02:31against the blockade, against the violence, against the so-called to death, against burning
02:37people alive because of the color of their skin, against, because every time that they
02:44ignore the people of Venezuela, they call the people of Venezuela as a plague.
02:51One of those very representative of fascism in Venezuela, he dared to say that the Venezuelan
02:58immigration was a plague.
03:01The president, candidate president, Nicolás Maduro, got in the transmission made yesterday
03:1080 percent, 5,150,092 votes for a 51.2 percent.
03:19And even Elon Musk dared to say in a way that one might think that a person that has such
03:29a high empire, an absolute hegemonic empire, that he doesn't respect for laws, he doesn't
03:36respect for anything with Venezuela, no.
03:40We made a mistake, they made a mistake, so childish.
03:46For example, yesterday, Telesur published an information where he was putting all the
03:54information, the 52 percent, the result of the candidate that was in the second place,
03:5942.2 percent, and then afterwards, according to the bulletin issued by the CNE, all the
04:06candidates, 4.6 percent.
04:09Telesur, I imagine, that in order to make it more graphic, the response put all the
04:15candidates that were in third place onward back, and he just put it in the 4.6
04:23percent as a total.
04:25And Elon Musk had the idea to add up, and he said 52.2, 44 plus 4.6 is not total, the
04:36amount.
04:37So this is the proof of the fraud.
04:40So he said the elections in Venezuela are automatic, there's no boxes.
04:49In Venezuela, people vote through a machine, afterwards they go to a polling box.
04:58But I put this as an example of a silly level that a person can achieve, can go to, if he
05:08resorts to that argument, so silly arguments as the one he just arrived.
05:19The electoral event was peaceful because we made it, President Maduro, I refer to the
05:28people of Venezuela, because we sorted out all the attempts that they would try to do
05:37to generate violence events during the electoral event, because we managed to foil all the
05:44attacks against the power system, because we managed to safeguard the lives of our
05:50candidates.
05:51It sounds barbarous and absurd, we had to, each day, we had to sit down to make plans
06:01to avoid that our candidates were attacked in a very atrocious way.
06:10The same day that we registered a candidate in Nicolás Maduro, there were two people
06:14that were just a few meters from him, to go with him, to assassinate him.
06:21If in the city of Maturín we found snipers, and in the state of Apuré, we saw the coming
06:29of the criminals from Colombia, we were telling that to be able to keep the peaceful climate,
06:37because it was our commitment, our principal commitment, that the electoral campaign was
06:43peaceful, that the electoral event be peaceful, and that peaceful was defending afterwards
06:51the election.
06:53But their proposals were always violent of this sector of the far right.
06:58And this is not new, I'm not saying that myself.
07:0229th of July, 2018, Madam Corina Machado, we know that the regiment will always be thrown
07:11with force, yesterday they gave the example because the armed forces actually safeguarded
07:26their people.
07:27Madam Corina Machado made an intervention to manage the freedom of Venezuela.
07:32Okay, let's come, let's come here and assassinate us.
07:42For whatever surnames that they have, they are criminals.
07:49It seems a very good decision that the conversations are started between the South Command and
07:57the ambassadors.
07:58This is a criminal, which the only objective that he tried to look for when he was there
08:04to find Donald Trump to invade the sacred territory of Venezuela, and they were meeting
08:12and the South Command to discuss the winter clothes, or perhaps they were meeting to find
08:21out the military plans against Venezuela.
08:24So here she's thanking this criminal, this lackey, who was ambassador of Duque, the criminal
08:33Duque, thanking Duque because this criminal was asking the participation of the AR, a
08:40multilateral army to invade Venezuela.
08:44And I'm not tired with those, I'm not tiring you with so many examples.
08:49Why I say that?
08:52Because the true plan was the one that they're trying to execute during these late hours.
08:59This is not only an election, as once they told Maduro and me, a friend of a country
09:09of our continent, the elections is a process, a process that starts with the inscription
09:15of the candidates, the campaign, and afterwards the voting, and afterwards the electoral body
09:22issues a statement, the results, and this process is closed with the proclamation of
09:28the candidate that won.
09:30It's a process, but it's very clear that the intention was another one.
09:38What did they do?
09:40They said that they were going to recognize the results of CNE, results that they would
09:48not recognize that, but only what their documents say.
09:53They will only recognize what their own documents would say.
09:57And yesterday we learned what was their intentions.
10:03They attacked the center of transmission of the CNE.
10:07They attacked the webpage of the CNE.
10:12Millions of attacks, they received the webpage of the CNE.
10:16But they also attacked specifically the centers that the CNE has, where all the data with
10:27the results of the elections passed, they tried to avoid that valuable information,
10:34to avoid the totals and be able to proclaim a winner, to be able to impose what they want,
10:42but the information of their documents, they would only recognize their documents, and
10:48to avoid that yesterday the CNE could issue its bulletin.
10:54If they had managed this plan, which was their main plan, so the violence that they're trying
10:59to sow, they would have done it yesterday.
11:05And they would come out and say, well, we have our own acts, our own documents, and
11:10when they start asking the journalists, if they have the documents, why don't they show it?
11:15So this man, I remember, I forget this man, Gonzalez Urrutia, came out to say, we have
11:2320% of the documents, of the acts, we have 30%, no, we have 15%.
11:28Another one came and said, no, we have 25%, and another liar said that she had 100%.
11:35How do we believe if many people at the same time in the 30 minutes, four different percentages
11:41that they have?
11:44At this time, I imagine that they must be inventing things in order to sow, again, things
11:52before the international media so that it must amplify those information, those lies
11:58in the social media, and in order to the governments that are the last one government, it's their
12:06boss to reproduce and amplify that lie.
12:12When in every country in the planet, the only bulletin and the only result that has to be
12:21respected is the one that is issued by the National Electoral Council.
12:28The National Electoral Council managed the transmission of the data, but the brutal hacking
12:38is still on to avoid that 100% of the information can be transmitted to the National Electoral
12:46Council.
12:48So what is the reason?
12:51To do the same thing that Capriles did in 2013, to call people to the streets, and it's
13:00not calling people to the streets.
13:02The thing is that it's been a year that they have been trying to prepare those hotspots
13:07in different areas in the country, in Caracas, in Carabobo, in Aragua, in Portuguesa.
13:14They had one more year of preparing criminals thanks that the government of President Maduro
13:22dismantled the big bands that were acting in the national territory.
13:28They haven't been able to generate the violence that they were planning because everything
13:36they dismantled, all the people that they had contracted were dismantled.
13:42So now they didn't leave, they didn't stop contracting people as Capriles did in 2013
13:52and 2017, is to contact people, criminals in the neighborhoods, to attack the inhabitants
14:01of those neighborhoods, to generate violence and to generate uncertainty, and that's what
14:06they're trying to do now, today.
14:12Now, they are saying now that there are 11 dead.
14:20How many dead in 2017?
14:23How many dead in 2014 and 2017?
14:27Do you remember?
14:35La Salida was planned to develop violence, generate violence, the day of the elections
14:42of mayors of December 2013, and they were not able to do that because the people's force
14:54and the deployment of the public forces avoided and kept those situations developed, and you
15:03see here Maria Corina Machado issuing their violence plans in February 2014.
15:09It's very curious that two months before we had had mayor elections, and some of them
15:16have been elected mayors of different cities in the country, but there was a plan that
15:21was already orchestrated, and I would like to insist the proposal of the far-right extremist
15:29It's not electoral, it's violent, it's barbarous, it's homicidal, they don't care the elections,
15:40they only have the elections as a means to achieve their objectives, that's why they
15:47call fraud before time, and it was very curious that a political representative called fraud
15:57before the electoral process.
15:58The intention that we're trying to get, and the ones that are trying to do now in the
16:03social media, is just that, to develop and generate a hotspot to generate violence.
16:16The April 30 coup in 2019, the attempt of coup, the proclamation of this silly of Juan
16:24Guaido, this is the same standard, now they're doing the same thing.
16:33Now the president-elect Maduro said, is the plan Guaido 2.0?
16:40Because he counts on mosques with networks and with other forms of ways to attack the
16:47tranquility and peace of the population.
16:50His project is not an electoral project.
16:54Fascism does not resort to elections, but only as a mean to achieve their violent proposal.
17:09Their proposal is violence, is maltreatment, is aggression, and that's what they're doing
17:15today.
17:16They just burned the distributor in Altamira, they just left manholes, they burned containers,
17:28waste containers, and all these accompany, of course, all the networks, media, that is
17:35an excuse to claim which is not original.
17:49They have already chanted fraud in all the electoral events in which they have lost since
17:572004 until today, it's not even original.
18:0315th of August, 2004, Hugo Chavez won 60% to 40%, their so-called referendum fraud,
18:15they call fraud.
18:16They said that they would show the proofs, the evidence, they never did.
18:22During the days, 15, 16, 17, 18 August, there was violence in the streets of Caracas.
18:32The assassination of the prosecutors, Anderson, also has to do with these plans of these groups
18:41during the referendum and also afterwards, and after the referendum.
18:48Arne Rosales recognized partially the defeat that he received with Chavez in 2006, and
18:54in the same press conference, they denied that in the same conference that they acknowledged
19:00that.
19:01So, the major elections, they said it was a referendum against Maduro, Maduro won, and
19:07they also launched what they call La Salida.
19:13That is to say, for them, the elections is not only, it's an opportunity to violence
19:20and it's what they're trying to do at this moment, and I will tell them, no, we're not
19:24going to permit that, we're not going to permit it, Nicolás Maduro, we're not going to permit
19:29it, the public forces of Venezuela will not allow it, and of course, the people of Venezuela
19:36would not allow it.
19:37That's why we summoned to all our people to great marches tomorrow at 2 o'clock, from
19:47Petare to Miraflores, from Cate to Miraflores, from La Vegas to Miraflores, from El Valle
19:53to Miraflores, to celebrate this victory, but also to defend peace of the republic.
19:59This time, we will not allow that, and they will not achieve it, and of course, with some,
20:06all the forces of the revolutionary people of Venezuela, for these marches, for marches
20:12in their cities, in their states, this has been a very, a campaign, electoral campaign
20:18characterized by the exchange, by the meetings of nine candidates with their followers.
20:27The other was trying to organize the force of the day after, and the day after, for whatever
20:34they deny it, and the day after, we also exist and we are the majority, and that's why we're
20:42going to the streets, to defend peace, even your peace that you are living, also, you
20:50that live in Florida, we are defending your right to peace, you have the right to peace,
20:56and perhaps the candidate for you, the candidate you voted for, is the one that is organizing
21:01together with these leaders all these acts of violence that they have tried to generate
21:08as a hotspot in the city, in the capital city, and in other cities of the country, but we're
21:13not going to allow that.
21:16They will be dismantled with the use of the resources that the constitution and the laws
21:22gives us, and tomorrow, to the streets, tomorrow, we will be millions, we will be thousands
21:31on all the four cardinal points that, to just fool all the avenues, we're going to Miraflores
21:42to defend our right to life, our right to freedom, and above all, our right to select
21:51and to defend the result of elections.
21:53Nobody's going to come here, it's not going to become here any bureaucrats, not even a
21:58daughter of daddy, to impose a result that was not expressed in the voting machines.
22:04No Elon Musk will come here, no foreign government is going to come here to impose a result that
22:10is not the result that was provided in the electoral process of the Venezuelan people.
22:16So it's very clear that the idea that you have is not an electoral plan, we knew it,
22:21and even though, even that way, and with all the sanctions, economic sanctions against
22:25the economic, the people of Venezuela, and all the blockades to the economy, and despite
22:32the process of recuperation, economic recuperation that we have had, there's no doubt that has
22:38been very hard, the aggressions that we have been submitted.
22:44There's no doubt about it, because that's their always plan, to demotivate, to attack,
22:49to take advantage of the damage, to take advantage of their evilness.
22:54But they are mistaken, again.
22:57We're going to the streets to defend this territory that you hate, to this territory,
23:04to the life of people, to defend the right of peace, to the right of the economic recovery,
23:11the right that we can develop all the plans that allow us to recover, and you will be
23:19with everything, I swear.
23:28We were listening to the statements of the President of the National Assembly, Jorge
23:31Rodríguez, several hours after the release of the preliminary results of the presidential
23:36elections that granted the victory to President-elect Nicolás Maduro.
23:40During his statements, Rodríguez denounced the hacking of the electoral system and action
23:45performed by the extreme right-wing of the country that does not respect the will of
23:49the majority of the people.
23:51In his remarks, the official assured that even when the far-right is trying to hamper
23:55this democratic process, the victory of President-elect Nicolás Maduro is legitimate and is the result
24:02of years of struggle against fascism.
24:04Finally, Rodríguez called for a massive march in the capital, Caracas, and in the rest of
24:09the country to celebrate this victory and to defend peace.
24:13This is all for the moment.
24:14As soon, stay tuned with From the South.