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Urna electoral de madera sobre una mesa en una sala de cumbre con banderas al fondo y los colores de Venezuela desenfocados en primer plano
Imagen alusiva a la hoja de ruta electoral propuesta para Venezuela, presentada en el marco de la Cumbre Iberoamericana en Madrid. · Imagen generada por EPM

Machado and González back U.S. plan for new Venezuelan elections

María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia endorsed from Madrid a United States plan to renew the TSJ and the CNE, declare the vacancy of the Executive…

--- The context --- Venezuela endures a prolonged de facto situation, in the words of its own opposition leaders. In Madrid, in the context of the thirtieth Ibero-American Summit, María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia issued a joint declaration. The leaders lamented that the citizens of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela are not represented at summits such as the one in Madrid, and presented themselves as spokespeople for the citizens' will. --- The facts --- Machado and González Urrutia backed, on 05 November, a plan proposed by the United States Department of State. The initiative envisages renewing the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) and the National Electoral Council (CNE), then declaring the vacancy of the Executive and holding presidential elections in Venezuela within six months. As the leaders set out, once the new authorities are designated by the end of 2026 the absolute absence of the president must be decreed. The projected date for the vote would roughly coincide with July 24, the anniversary of the birth of Simón Bolívar, following suggestions from international allies and from the Venezuelan citizens' movement. Both figures ratified their commitment to maintain active resistance in the country and across the continent, and their confidence in the irreversibility of the transition thanks to popular pressure, a scenario they hope to realize during their imminent return. --- The positions --- In the document, the leaders stated, in reported terms, that they endorse the plan as a reasonable path toward recovering constitutional order, and that setting an electoral timetable gives certainty to the transition. For Machado, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and for González Urrutia, the roadmap offers a peaceful framework. They welcomed the agreements on digital cooperation, academic mobility and disaster mitigation, warned that respect for fundamental rights is a requirement for authentic multilateral ties, and proposed that Caracas host the thirty-second edition in 2030. --- What remains unknown --- There is no public reaction on record from the Executive or from the current TSJ and CNE authorities, nor any word on how the new authorities would be designated by the end of 2026. There is also no detailed timetable between the renewal, the absolute absence and elections within six months. --- Unanswered questions --- Who will designate the new TSJ and CNE authorities, and through what mechanism, by the end of 2026? Will the projected date around July 24 hold for the presidential elections? When will the return to the country that both describe as imminent actually take place? --- EPM analysis --- The endorsement orders a sequence that circulated as a loose demand: first renewed institutions, then a vacancy in the Executive, then elections with a date. Tying the calendar to the birth of Simón Bolívar seeks to make the transition read as a verifiable itinerary. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the value of the document lies in its sequence and its calendar, because a transition without prior institutional order would repeat the improvisation Venezuela has already paid for too dearly. Renewing the TSJ and the CNE before declaring the absolute absence and voting within six months offers a route that can be checked step by step, and the date around July 24 turns expectation into a public commitment before allies and citizens.
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