Juan Carlos Monedero: Extremist right wing was depressed and aimless after Maduro's swearing in

Published at: 11/01/2025 09:18 AM

The Spanish political scientist and analyst, Juan Carlos Monedero, stated that after the swearing in of the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, for the period 2025-2031, the extremist right was depressed and aimless in the nation's political scene.

During an interview on the program A Pulso broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión, he said that “that's not good. It's not good that there isn't an opposition because always, even if it's out of an obsession to criticize, they force you to do things better.”

“In other words, a government that does not have an opposition can make mistakes and, therefore, we must also break with the idea that the opposition must change all the rules of a country,” he said.

He emphasized that sectors of the Venezuelan bourgeoisie in recent years have had no political judgment, since in his opinion all they wanted was to overthrow the legitimate Government of President Maduro. “They want to dismantle what has been built (in 25 years) and people don't want that,” he said.

In this context, Monedero urged the Venezuelan right to renew its leadership in the face of the upcoming electoral events in the country. “It is fair that their five million members who voted for them no longer follow them, because they have failed in all their promises,” he said.

On the other hand, he stressed that the Bolivarian Revolution begins a new cycle with the swearing in of the head of state, which “must make the opposition change its leadership radically, because they have always wanted to ignore the electoral processes in Venezuela.”

He also regretted that the fugitive from justice, Edmundo González, had become a puppet of the fascist María Corina Machado. “He's a sad character and I don't know which character will belong to him because he's a boss of María Corina Machado,” he said.

Monedero highlighted that the streets of Caracas were dressed in joy with the swearing in of President Maduro. “I was in the vicinity of the CANTV, at the College of Engineers, and all we saw was the joy of the people,” he said.

Mazo News Team