Dozens of Communist and Workers’ Parties, expressed energetic condemnation of the recent measure of political disqualification against the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) that seeks to prevent it from participating in the elections of January 9, 2022. 

A press conference of the Communist Party of Venezuela (Photo: Partido Comunista de Venezuela)

During the last regional electoral process held on November 21, “We were able to evidence how 13 PCV candidates were disqualified in an arbitrary and illegal manner and institutional moves applied so that the PCV could not participate with its own candidacies in the elections,” they said.

And more: “We observe with great concern the advance of dangerous practices that undermine the democratic freedoms of the workers and their revolutionary organizations in Venezuela. We demand that the attacks against the PCV cease immediately and that its right to participate in the elections of January 9, 2022 be immediately restored.”

Among the parties who subscribed the call: Communist Party of Albania, Party of Labour of Austria, Communist Party of Belgium, Brazilian Communist Party, Communist Party of Canada, Colombian Communist Party, Socialist Workers’ Party of Croatia, German Communist Party, Communist Party of Greece, Workers Party of Ireland, Communist Party of Israel, Communist Party of Mexico, Paraguayan Communist Party, New Communist Party of Yugoslavia, Communists of Serbia, Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain, Communist Party of the Workers of Spain, Communists of Catalonia, Syrian Communist Party, Communist Party of Sweden, Communist Party of Turkey, Communist Party of Venezuela and Communist Front, Italy.