In Venezuela, an "above all symbolic election" Sunday in the state of Barinas
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Former Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, left, speaks alongside a livestream by President Nicolas Maduro in Barinas, Venezuela on Sunday, December 5, 2021 © Ariana Cubillo / AP
By: Mikaël Ponge Follow |
Mikaël Ponge Follow
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On Sunday January 9, 2022, voters in the state of Barinas are called to replay the governor election last November.
The opposition candidate, who had been given a short lead by the electoral authority, saw his candidacy invalidated after the results were announced.
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On November 21, 2021, Venezuela's ruling party, the PSUV, took the win by winning 19 of the country's 23 states in the local elections held that day. But a result came to spoil the party, that of
Barinas
, a state in the center of the country, which saw the birth of Hugo Chavez, the former president, father of the Bolivarian revolution. This result gave
Freddy Superlano
, the opposition table candidate (MUD) a short lead. Disavowing the national electoral council, the court of justice, controlled by the presidential camp, ruled that he should not have appeared on the ballot paper due to an administrative sanction imposed in August and stemming from his work as as a legislator between 2015 and 2020.
This Sunday, January 9, 2022, voters are therefore called to replay the ballot. "
A symbolic election in this state which is not the most populous, which is not the most decisive for the state
" underlines our guest, Thomas Posado, doctor in Political Sciences at the University of Paris 8, specialist in Venezuela . He reminds us that on Sunday voters will have to decide in particular two new candidates:
Jorge Arreaza
for the PSUV, "
a heavyweight of Chavismo, he was a long time minister, 4 years for foreign affairs, dispatched to Barinas to try to keep in the fold of the government majority when he does not even live in this state as demanded by Venezuelan laws
”, and
Sergio Garrido
for the MUD. "
The stake is uncertain
"recalls Thomas Posado who wonders"
will all these maneuvers indignant the population of Barinas and thus favor a victory for the opposition, or will they give the impression that the ballot is pipé, that the vote is not democratic, favoring massive abstention and therefore the victory of Jorge Arreaza
”.
One of the main suspects in the assassination of Jovenel Moïse indicted in the United States
Mario Antonio Palacios
alias "
Floro
", a 43-year-old Colombian former soldier, is the first person to be formally charged in connection with the assassination of President Moïse. This main suspect in the
assassination of President Jovenel Moïse
on July 7, 2021 in his private residence in Port au Prince, was arrested by FBI agents on Monday January 3 in Panama, after serving several months in prison in Jamaica. "
When the Jamaican authorities expelled him to Colombia, American agents arrested him during a stopover in Panama
" relates the American press. Palacios appeared before a federal judge, and was charged with "
conspiracy to commit kidnapping or murder outside the United States
”.
Next hearing for him on January 31.
He incurs life imprisonment.
Latin America facing a new wave of Covid-19
15,000 cases per day in
Mexico
, the country passes the bar of four million cases.
Peru
is
also facing a particularly strong third wave.
Of the 33 million inhabitants of the country, more than two million cases and more than 202,000 deaths from the coronavirus have been recorded.
According to the FP, the per capita death rate from the pandemic is the highest in the world.
In
Brazil
, the second most bereaved country in the world, authorities in Rio have decided to suspend popular carnival parades next month.
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