The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has demanded this Thursday, in her first public intervention after returning to the country, the holding of presidential elections in 2027, relying, she has stated, on the three-point plan presented by the United States after the capture of President Nicolás Maduro in January of this year.
From the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, in Caracas, Machado has held a press conference in which she has defended that her electoral proposal is based on the three-point plan designed by the Administration of Donald Trump, which contemplated a transition stage once political stabilization and the economic recovery of Venezuela were achieved.
"My presence in Venezuela and what we have lived through in these last three days demonstrates first of all that the three-phase plan presented by President Trump is advancing," the opposition leader has maintained, to the point "that it makes clear the holding of presidential elections in 2027".
Machado has linked her return in recent days with the "irreversible" progress toward a democratic transition and has expressed her gratitude to Trump for his "vision" and "courage" in ordering the capture of Maduro and reopening "the floodgate of freedom" to turn Venezuela into "the greatest ally the United States will ever have" in the region.
Machado's expectations about an electoral calendar clash with the statements made hours earlier by the acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, who ruled out the possibility of calling elections in the short term.