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Manuel Rosales, who for years was the fiercest opponent of the deadliest president Hugo Chavezcould be the opposition candidate facing Nicolás Maduro in the presidential elections of Venezuela on July 28 this year. The current governor of the state of Zulia and founder of New Time was cited as a potential representative of the unit if Maria Corina Machadowinner of the opposition primaries, ends up not registering her candidacy.
According to the calendar of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Parties have a deadline of March 21st to 25th to register their candidacies.
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Last week, the governor United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) proclaimed for Nicolás Maduro as your candidate. The Chavista has governed the country since 2013 and aspires to a third term until 2030.
On the opposition side, Ax is the opponent who has the best chance of winning Maturebut on January 26th Chavista court confirmed that she is disqualified from performing public service for 15 yearstherefore it is almost certain that your registration will be rejected by the JNE.
Sunday, Ax published a video in which he assured that will make the “right decisions” before the electionsbut did not clarify how it intends to overcome the disqualification.
“Rest assured and trust that I will make the right decisions to move forward on this path, with the participation and support of all sectors that want urgent changes in the Venezuela“said the founder of the Vente Venezuela party.
These are challenging days.
Let us move forward with firmness and serenity. pic.twitter.com/oSU4seamMA— María Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) March 18, 2024
Some analysts interpreted that Ax was leaving the door open for a replacement to be chosen within the Democratic Unitary Platform.
One of the names you hear is Manuel Rosaleswho is not the closest ally Ax and also did not participate in the opposition primaries on October 22. He claimed he could not abandon his responsibilities as governor of Zulia.
As the Spanish newspaper El País reports, Rosales, 71, was publicly proposed by opposition leader Luis Emilio Rondónone of his trusted men.
According to NTN24, Machado met with Rosales in Caracas on Tuesdaywhere they would have addressed issues related to the nomination of a unitary candidate.
Although Machado and Rosales had discussed the option of nominating a replacement candidate, there is no final decision about the name of the person who could realize this possibility, noted NTN24.
Last week, when the Venezuelan press asked Rosales Regarding his possible candidacy, he replied that is committed to supporting Machado’s qualification.
“Maria Corina She was elected in the primaries and is our candidate, is the one who leads the opposition. We are in a struggle, in a permanent proposal with the unitary platform to allow the authorization of Maria Corina as a presidential candidate,” Rosales told journalist Román Lozinski.
He added that his party supports the unity of the opposition and will maintain the strategy agreed by that coalition regarding the impossibility of Ax You can register your candidacy with the CNE.
“There are several scenarios, but the tactics are not clear and we cannot announce what our strategy would be because we will put our opponents on alert, who want to stay there for another six years. The important thing is to stay on the electoral path and be consistent with the people of Venezuela that asks us to get out of this situation,” he said.
Born on December 12, 1952 in Santa Bárbara del Zulia, Manuel Rosales faced Hugo Chavez in the presidential elections of December 2006, in which the socialist ruler was re-elected with 62.9% of the votes, against the 36.8% that the founder of the A new time.
Rosaleswith studies in law and administration, he began his career in politics in the ranks of the historic party Democratic Action (AD)of which he was regional leader.
In 1995 assumed the position of mayor of Maracaiboposition he held until 2000.
In 1999After leaving the AD, he founded Un Nuevo Tiempo, a center-right party.
One year later He was elected governor of Zulia with a wide margin.
In 2004 was re-elected as governor of Zulia with 54% of the votes.
After being defeated by Chávez, In 2008, Rosales won the elections for mayor of Maracaibo again,position he held for five months, as the Chavista attack against him would change the political scenario in Venezuela.
At this point, it must be taken into account that for the 2006 presidential elections Rosales won the support of most of the oppositionand after his defeat he continued to lead detractors of Chavezsomething that made it a political objective of Chavismo.
In 2007, Rosales was the coordinator of the No campaign in a referendum on reforms to the 1999 Constitution.which included the indefinite re-election of the president.
In the end, the opposition won by a narrow margin, dealing with a historic defeat to Hugo Chávezwhich until then boasted of its electoral victories by large margins.
The persecution against Rosales worsened in March 2009, when the Public Prosecutor’s Office, appointed by the Government, accused him of illicit enrichment during his tenure as governor of Zulia.
In April of that year, before a hearing in which his possible arrest and ban on leaving the country would be decided, Rosales He traveled to Peru, where he was granted political asylum. The decision of the President’s Government Alan García Pérez triggered a diplomatic crisis with Caracas.
In mid-October 2015, after spending more than six years in exile in Peru, Rosales returned to Venezuela. He was detained upon arriving at Maracaibo airport.
The police took him to the Helicoidone of the headquarters of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) in Caracas, where he was detained.
He had a warrant for his arrest for illicit enrichment.
A year later, in October 2016, The court decided to impose the home-to-prison order.
Opposition sectors interpreted that the decision of the Rosales return to Venezuela was due to the existence of a negotiation between the president’s government Nicolás Maduro and his party Un Nuevo Tiempo.
Finally, on December 31, 2016, he was released along with five other opponents. His release was one of the conditions that the opposition established at the dialogue table it held that year with the government of Maturewhich featured the Vatican as main companion.
Almost a year later, on October 30, 2017, The Chavista justice removed the political disqualification that weighed on Manuel Rosales. After this decision, he announced his candidacy for governor of Zulia.
The decision to Rosales was questioned by the opposition, which grouped together in the Democratic Unity Table (MUD) agreed not to participate in the 2017 elections, citing a lack of democratic conditions.
Rosales He lost the December 10, 2017 elections to Chavista Omar Prieto.
On September 2, 2021, Rosales announced his fifth candidacy for governor of Zulia, this time with the support of the opposition. On November 21 of that year he won the elections with 57% of the votes.
Source: Elcomercio
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