Daniel Lozano

Updated Tuesday, March 26, 2024-07:17

  • Venezuela The cohort of candidates to accompany Maduro

"These are very dark hours," as warned

Corina Yoris

, the candidate chosen by the opposition Democratic Unity and by the disqualified María Corina Machado to face

Nicolás Maduro

in the presidential elections on July 28. The 80-year-old philosopher was absolutely right: the candidate registration period was closed, the Bolivarian revolution did not allow the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) to nominate the unitary candidate

Yoris

during the five days that the process lasted

.

A strict blockade while its leaders saw how, without any problem, standard-bearers of different types and political stripes were joining the shadow of the "people's president."

"They have not allowed us

to access the nomination system

. Let there be a record of this violation of the right of the majority of Venezuelans who want to vote for change and are prevented from having a candidate. We leave a record of a historic outrage," denounced Omar Barboza , spokesperson for the opposition unit, at the stroke of midnight in Caracas, early morning in Madrid.

The royal opposition demanded that

the deadline be reopened to nominate its new candidate,

who is not disqualified nor is she subject to any process against her. The MUD card is the one that has received the most votes in Venezuelan electoral history.

Aside from the maneuver, and in the last breath, the nomination of the highly controversial governor Manuel Rosales,

leader of the opposition party Un Nuevo Tiempo

(UNT) that has been cohabiting with the central government for months, was confirmed. Rosales was, from the first moment, the "potable" leader chosen by Maduro, who denied one after another all the proposals that the real opposition put on the table.

Rosales ran with the UNT electoral card, although he will also have

the support of Fuerza Vecinal,

a party of light opposition mayors, financed by a garbage collection company.

"The factors that always played against the primary will not be able to endorse its result and its legitimacy; much less with plays at the last minute at midnight. They are evident," denounced Pedro Urruchurtu, a leader very close to María Corina Machado in reference to the maneuver. from Rosales.

Also a few hours before closing the process, it was recorded that the National Electoral Council (CNE) accepted the express authorization of the Centrados party, which proposed Enrique Márquez as its candidate, expelled from UNT in 2018 for supporting the electoral fraud carried out then by chavismo.