Communiqué – The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) informs the Venezuelan working people about the conclusions of the deliberations of the XV Plenum of the Central Committee, held February 15, whose agenda was the definition of the political-electoral tactics of the Venezuelan communists before the call for regional and legislative elections for next April 27, 2025.
In this sense, we wish to transmit to national public opinion a set of basic facts that precede this electoral call and without which it is impossible to understand the acute political and social crisis prevailing in the country today:
- The inauguration of Nicolás Maduro last January 10 is the culminating point of a conspiracy of Public Powers, controlled by the leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), against the legitimate aspirations for change of the Venezuelan people who reject his anti-worker, anti-popular and profoundly anti-democratic administration. In an illegal and unconstitutional manner, Maduro assumed a de facto Government without the National Electoral Council (CNE) presenting the results of the presidential elections of July 28, disaggregated by polling station, as established by law.
- After having lost popular support, the corrupt leadership that today controls the state apparatus has unleashed a repression unprecedented in recent history against the popular sectors, the result of which has been the arbitrary detention of hundreds of workers and youths – many of them kidnapped at the doors of their homes or workplaces – who today are victims of violations of their most elementary rights.
- The policy of terror imposed by the PSUV to consolidate its electoral farce has also been based on the persecution and criminalization of those political and social sectors that fight for the recovery of the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people. Such has been the case of the Popular Democratic Front (FDP) – of which the PCV is a member – currently, one of its main figures, former presidential candidate Enrique Márquez remains kidnapped and incommunicado without any legal explanation. Furthermore, leaders María Alejandra Díaz and Juan Barreto are besieged by police and para-police groups, and at the same time – together with the Secretary General of the PCV, Oscar Figuera – they are being linked to extreme right wing factors through crude propaganda operations, orchestrated by the instruments of manipulation of the Government-PSUV.
- The anti-communist campaign of the PSUV leadership had its most important milestone with the judicial assault against the PCV and the handing over of its electoral ticket to a handful of mercenaries at the service of Nicolás Maduro. With this – emulating Betancourism – not only has the Venezuelan left been deprived of taking part in electoral processes, but the pact that the bourgeois elites of the Government maintain with the most reactionary sectors of the opposition to sustain the false polarization that has led the country to this catastrophic crossroads has been proven.
In this context in which the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been abrogated; of absence of guarantees and electoral transparency; of conditioning and arbitrary norms to hinder political participation; and of the rise of authoritarianism and repression, the XV Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela, making use of its independence as a party of the working class and the working people of the city and the countryside, has resolved not to participate in the elections for Governorships, Legislative Councils and the National Assembly scheduled for April 27, 2025.
The PCV ratifies its call to the revolutionary, popular and genuinely democratic forces, independently of the tactics adopted in this electoral situation, to unite in a broad alliance to fight for the recovery of the political, economic and social rights that have been taken away, as well as to confront the solutions of external meddling with which a sector of the pro-imperialist right wing is trying to make the country believe that it will solve this acute crisis of legitimacy.
We Venezuelan communists hold high the demands made after the coup against the popular will of July 28: The country must know the electoral results as established by law. We demand independence of the electoral referee; restitution of the electoral tickets to the legitimate leaderships of the political parties; full freedom for political prisoners; restitution of democratic guarantees and respect for popular sovereignty.
We continue on our feet, joining forces and organizing struggle!
