Daniel Lozano
Updated Sunday, March 24, 2024-00:39
Venezuela The philosopher Corina Yoris, chosen to replace María Corina Machado for the Venezuelan presidential elections
Chavismo keeps
Venezuela
in suspense once again. The two opposition parties that have an electoral card to participate in the July presidential elections have not been able to date, Saturday night in
Caracas,
to access the digital registry of the
National Electoral Council (CNE),
a previous step to register
Corina Yoris,
the consensus candidate chosen to replace the disqualified
María Corina Machado.
This process, which began on Thursday, ends on Monday night.
"I alert Venezuelans and the world of the maneuver underway to
prevent the registration in the CNE
of the candidate of the entire democratic unity of Venezuela, Corina Yoris," Machado warned. Neither the
Democratic Unity Table (MUD)
nor
Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT),
the two surviving parties of the last government purge, have been provided with digital codes to access the registry. "The MUD and the UNT have cards enabled to register the unitary candidate, but the government refuses to allow it," UNT denounced on its social networks.
A massive campaign has been launched on Venezuelan social networks, under the hashtag
#DejenInRegistraACorina,
to denounce the government's latest maneuver, which does not have any legal support, since the two parties and the candidate herself are neither illegal nor disqualified. The election of Corina Yoris, an 80-year-old philosopher with an impeccable academic and civic career,
filled democratic Venezuela with enthusiasm
after the illegal and unconstitutional disqualification of María Corina Machado, last year's winner of the democratic primaries with the
support of 93%. of the voters.
"#StopInscribingACorina because there are no reasons whatsoever to deny it. If you want to deny her right and ours to support her, show your face, but enough of hiding behind an error in an electronic application system," highlighted
María Beatriz Martínez,
president of the centrist
Primero Justicia (PJ),
one of the opposition parties that cannot attend the elections because the
Superior Court of Justice (TSJ)
intervened in the party and imposed authorities allied with the government.
"Sources close to power inform me that they will not give the codes to the MUD and UNT card to register Corina Yoris. The same source informs me that they apply unconventional methods for MUD and UNT to register another candidate conditioned by the government," he said.
Nicmer Evans,
political analyst who in the past was a Chavista leader critical of Madurismo.
"The wheels are still stuck in the CNE. A source tells me that pro-government rectors have communicated to their opposition colleagues that there is a political decision from above not to allow the registration of Corina Yoris with the MUD and UNT cards. And time is ticking ...", added journalist
Vladimir Villegas,
former president of the public channel
Venezolana de Televisión (VTV)
during the time of
Hugo Chávez.