Chavistas and anti-Chavez resume negotiations | Chronic

Chavismo and opposition delegates resumed Wednesday in Bridgetown, Barbados, facilitated negotiations by the Norwegian government to find a way out of the institutional crisis in Venezuela, said a source of the process.

"We have started a new series of meetings under the Oslo Mechanism", said the second vice president of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) and representative of anti-Chavez to the dialogue, Stalin González.

"We insist on the search for a constitutional solution putting an end to the sufferings of Venezuelans, our people need definitive results to get out of the crisis where we are"Gonzalez added to his Twitter account.

This is the fifth round of negotiations after the two meetings held last May in Oslo and the other two held in Bridgetown this month.

The dialogue focuses on a six-point agenda, including a possible call for general elections as soon as possible to end the January power struggle with opposition to the current presidential mandate. Chavista. Nicolás Maduro and the AN designation by the antichavista Juan Guaidó as interim president of the republic.

The negotiations lasted two unexpected weeks because the protagonists decided to prolong the period of consultations in Caracas with Maduro, Guaidó and the main advisors of each party.

The aspects that have generated the greatest consensus difficulties so far are whether Maduro should leave the government before or after these elections and the eventual lifting of sanctions imposed by several countries on the Chavan government.

Sources from both sectors have ratified the moderate optimism expressed in recent weeks, reinforced by the statement made by the Norwegian government at the end of the fourth round, which expressed for the first time its opinion. "hope" in the results of the process.

"It going" In the dialogue, one of the Maduro delegates to Barbados, Hector Rodríguez, governor of Miranda State, announced Tuesday the leader of Chavez enjoying the best image in the polls and presidential candidate it was agreed to call elections.

In addition to the strict discretion imposed by Norway on the parties, Rodríguez said the company should be part of the dialogue to reduce clashes and avoid "Political actors can reach an agreement that people do not recognize".

Meanwhile, the diplomatic representative of Guaidó in the United States, Carlos VecchioHe told the National Press Club in Washington that he hoped the sectors negotiating in Bridgetown would reach an agreement before the end of the year, according to the digital newspaper Al Navío.