Delcy Rodríguez promises elections in Venezuela with a "renewed" electoral authority but avoids setting a date

"It has been a long road in the search for maximum happiness for our country," said Delcy Rodríguez this Thursday, in a message addressed to the country with the intention of playing ahead. The president in charge did not fall into political offside, but she did anticipate the long-awaited first press conference of the democratic leader, María Corina Machado.

The little girl of the Rodríguez brothers tried to transform herself for a moment into a kind of Venezuelan-style Adolfo Suárez, after ensuring that she is the right person to lead the transition to democracy because she comes from within (very inside) the dictatorship.

"The decisions we are making and must make are not easy. For some it is giving up too much, for others it is advancing too little. Between these two tensions we govern and we have chosen a path that, with firm steps, reaches a successful conclusion," Delcy highlighted in an attempt to place himself in the political center, between the revolution and María Corina Machado.

"There will be elections, all those mandated by our Constitution, organized by a renewed electoral authority and with the world as a witness," said the former vice president of dictator Nicolás Maduro. The assertion of the head of recycled Chavismo maintains the same doubts about the electoral deadlines, since according to the Constitution presidential elections would not be necessary until 2030.

Force elections

Something very different was advanced this week by Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, who supports the idea that it will be the new Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) that will declare the absolute absence of Maduro to force elections six months later.

"The transformation of Venezuela will be spiritual, democratic, orderly, institutional and verifiable," continued the president in charge, who also assured that she has ordered the security forces that no person be detained without a court order, unless they are caught red-handed committing a crime. "And it will lead us to a true rebirth," added the revolutionary to make it clear that she is already in the pre-election campaign. A rebirth that includes an increase in salaries by 2027, after years of frozen and very poor minimum wages.

"The decisions of this transformation are made here, they are signed here and they are announced first to you," stressed the president, who insisted that the elections must be a solution "and not a generator of irreconcilable conflicts."

Delcy reviewed some of his "achievements", such as the Amnesty law "to help heal the wounds caused by years of confrontation between brothers."