David Denny, General Secretary for the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration with Venezuelans, ahead of election day.
The Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration has been following closely the National Assembly Elections in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which took place on December 6th, 2020.
In fact, David Denny, General Secretary of the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration (CMPI) travelled to Venezuela, where he witnessed the election process first hand.
“I am in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and I am representing the World Peace Council, Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration, Caribbean Peace Movement, Assembly of Caribbean People, Caribbean Pan African Network, Pan African Federalist Movement, Cuban Barbadian Friendship Association and the Friends of Venezuela Solidarity Committee in Barbados and I am invited to be part of the Special International Election Observing Team in Venezuela. Our International Team will visit the Election Centres and we will be meeting with Election Officials and the Venezuelan People to follow the election in Venezuela,” Denny said on the Election day.
He also noted that as the World Peace Council organised a Press Conference in Venezuela at the end of the election, he was scheduled to participate and represent the region.
Denny said of the entire process, “I am here as an international observer, representing the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration and our movement visited a number of election sites in Venezuela on the election day and I am happy to report that Venezuela had a democratic electoral process, that gives the people of Venezuela the opportunity to vote for an assembly made up of men and women that they respect. That process created the conditions for all to participate without any form of confusion”.
“In fact, I met with all of the political parties that were there at the different centres. So I met with the Opposition groups, I met with the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, I met with the Communist Party of Venezuela and other social movements and all of them were happy and they openly said to us that what they are practising in Venezuela is democratic and that they want the world to honour and respect their process. So because of that, I am calling on the Government of Barbados, the governments within CARICOM, to immediately recognise the elections in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. So our movement is looking forward to hearing from Caribbean governments and CARICOM,” Denny said.
He meanwhile added, “The Caribbean Movement fully endorses what took place in Venezuela on the 6th of December and we also now want to congratulate the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, which would have won most of the seats of the National Assembly.”