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Everything looks ready for

a new round of negotiations to begin

this week

between the

Nicolás Maduro

regime

and the democratic opposition

, this time in Mexico City. Sectors of the Venezuelan opposition that were evaluating their participation, such as that led by former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles, have confirmed that they support the process and will have representatives at the table who will arrive in Mexico on Friday.

"I absolutely agree

with the search for a negotiation process that allows Venezuelans to find solutions to their problems

. Not only political issues, but economic and social issues are discussed in Mexico that will alleviate the crisis experienced by the vast majority. Venezuelans, "Capriles said during a press conference yesterday.

Capriles confirmed that the representative of his party, Primero Justicia, will be Tomás Guanipa, and that his political ally Stalin González will also attend.

The struggles that could have hindered the beginning of the negotiation have been overcome. According to sources consulted by EL MUNDO, Maduro had asked to remove Carlos Vecchio, ambassador of the opposition leader Juan Guaidó in the United States, considering him "very radical", but the opposition representatives refused.

The presence of Vecchio at the table, unconditional ally of the opposition Leopoldo López, is maintained.

Maduro also failed to get representatives of the false opposition to attend Mexico, despite insisting until the last minute. The members of the so-called "democratic alliance", deputies to whom the Chavista Supreme Court

arbitrarily handed over control over the electoral cards

of the main opposition parties, announced in a statement that they will not go to negotiation, expressing their discontent because, according to them, not all parties are represented.

For his part,

Guaidó made a call on Twitter to the opposition to maintain unity

to achieve a "national salvation agreement."

The opposition leader believes that it is essential that the new negotiation is not limited to addressing regional elections, but must include presidential and legislative voting.

"

In unity we can achieve an agreement for national salvation

. Our effort has been and will continue to be to build the greatest and best possible union of all the factors that we want a change, because our country needs it. United, in the same direction, let's save Venezuela! ", Wrote the president of the opposition National Assembly on Twitter.

This will be the fifth negotiation process since Maduro came to power in 2013

, the last one - also with Norway as a mediator - failed in 2019 in Barbados without reaching an agreement.

This time each of the parties will have at least one allied country at the table.

On the side of Maduro will be Russia and on the side of the opposition the Netherlands were invited.

The United States,

owner of the toughest sanctions against the Maduro regime

, will closely follow the talks.

Electoral lists

Capriles asked the opposition to register candidates for the November 21 governor and mayors elections, whose nomination process began on August 9 and will run until August 29.

"Opening the time to apply, we have to make the applications, present the regional and local leaders, that we can see November 21 as an opportunity," said the former governor of the state of Miranda.

"

I think you have to vote, I invite people to express themselves,

" he added.

The decision to register candidacies has been another stumbling block within the opposition, since some sectors consider

that the guarantees for the vote to be "free and fair"

are insufficient.

Some sectors, including the one led by Capriles, had proposed signing a participation agreement before the start of the negotiation, but it was not achieved.

Capriles said that this election will provide more opportunities

than the last one that was boycotted by the opposition

in recent years, because after a negotiation process in which he participated, the appointment of a new National Electoral Council (CNE) was achieved.

"I believe that we must make use of that weapon of a democracy that we want to recover, that weapon is the vote. Being August 11, we have to go to November 21, we cannot renounce the use of that right (...)

At the CNE we now have two rectors who will defend electoral guarantees, "he

added.

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