2020年1月5日，委内瑞拉国民议会（Venezuelan National Assembly）将投票选举2020年议长，如果他们被允许行使其民主权利的话。
而前马杜罗（Maduro）政权最近的举动却预示着另一种情况。
在尼古拉斯·马杜罗（Nicolás Maduro）犯下抓捕、敲诈勒索和猖獗的腐败行径之时，美国政府再次重申，敦促有一个自由、公正的国民议会选举进程。
（State Dept./Photo © Leonardo Fernandez/AP Images）
美国负责委内瑞拉事务的特别代表艾里奥特·阿布拉姆斯（Elliott Abrams）于12月20日表示，马杜罗将会采取“威胁、流放、关押和贿赂”行径。该政权据称提出要给每张选票高达50万美元。“这是第一步。第二步将是试图通过阻止2020年的自由选举来夺取国民议会的控制权。”
国民议会是委内瑞拉仅存的民主机构，在过去一年中一直是马杜罗的攻击目标，因为他妄图让该国的民主制度丧失效力。
阿布拉姆斯说，五分之一的国民议会成员“遭到了关押，被迫流放，他们不受起诉的宪法豁免权遭到剥夺”。
在上一届总统选举中，马杜罗用食品换选票来对委内瑞拉人贿选——对于数百万挣扎着在大范围的食品短缺和恶性通货膨胀中求生存的忍饥挨饿的委内瑞拉人来说，这种交换存在着诱惑力。
阿布拉姆斯说：“马杜罗政权惧怕自由选举。”只有一个真正的民主选举进程“才能让委内瑞拉走出已为马杜罗统治的年代打下印记的压制和贫困”。
Maduro election tactics: Threaten, exile, detain, bribe
On January 5, 2020, the Venezuelan National Assembly will vote on its president for 2020 — that is, if they’re allowed to exercise theirdemocratic rights.
Recent actions by theformer Maduro regimesuggest otherwise.
Amid arrests, extortion andrampant corruptioncommitted by Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. government reinforced its call for a free and fair electoral process for the National Assembly.
(State Dept./Photo © Leonardo Fernandez/AP Images)
Maduro will “threaten, exile, detain, bribe,” Elliott Abrams, U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela said December 20. The regime is said to be offering up to $500,000 per vote. “That is step one. Step two will be to try to grab control of the National Assembly by preventing free elections in 2020.”
TheNational Assembly, the last democratic institution in Venezuela, has been targeted by Maduro over the past year as he tries to render thenation’s democracyineffective.
Twenty percent of the National Assembly’s deputies “have been detained, forced into exile, or had their constitutional immunities from prosecution revoked,” said Abrams.
In the last presidential election, Maduro bribed Venezuelans bytrading food for votes— a tempting offer for the millions of starving Venezuelans trying to survive widespread food shortages andhyperinflation.
“The Maduro regime fears free elections,” said Abrams, and only a true democratic electoral process “can bring Venezuela out of the repression and poverty that have been the hallmark of the Maduro years.”
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