Venezuela: the PSUV proclaims Nicolás Maduro as presidential candidate for a third term

The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) proclaimed this Saturday the president Nicolás Maduro as his candidate for the July 28 elections, in which he will seek the third term in power, which he achieved in 2013.

The first vice president of PSUV, God gave hair, considered the number two of Chavismo, he handed over the formation’s flag to the Matureafter speeches by six supporters that resulted in praise for the president.

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“Despite all the adversities, (Mature) managed to maintain peace in this country, doing politics, defeating the oligarchy, not once, but many times,” he said Hairwho recalled that a total of 4,240,032 militants of the PSUV supported, in previous assemblies, that the head of state seek a second re-election consecutive.

The thousands of supporters who gathered at the Caracas Polyhedronthe largest covered capacity in the country, They responded affirmatively when asked whether they approved Maduro’s nomination “as a candidate for the PSUV and the Bolivarian revolution” for the July elections.

After that, Hair said the president was ratified by acclamation as a presidential candidate, so they will register him as such before the National Electoral Council (CNE)which opened a period, between March 21st and 25th, for the presentation of these applications.

Taking the microphone, after waving the PSUV flag, Maduro thanked him for the support and promised to fight to win the elections.

“There is only one destination: popular victory. Whatever they do, whatever they say, they have not been and will never be able to defeat us,” he stated. express.

He head of state – who won his first re-election in 2018 with 6.2 million votes, in elections questioned by the international community – will run, now aged 61, without it yet being clear who his opponents will be.

On the part of the majority opposition, former deputy María Corina Machado, who won the primaries last October, hopes to run despite having been disqualified from holding public office, by decision of the Comptroller General of the Republic, which will prevent her from registering her candidacy at the CNE.

Source: Elcomercio

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