Enrique Márquez: former opposition electoral director registers as a candidate for the presidential elections in Venezuela

A leader close to the main opposition alliance in Venezuela This Monday he registered his candidacy for the presidential elections, a few hours before the closing of the candidacies, without the coalition he leads Maria Corina Machado announced his endorsement.

Henrique Márquezformer rector of the National Electoral Council (CNE), submitted his application to that body within the deadline.

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“I will seek the vote of every Venezuelan, without considering myself the owner of the truth (…), because we Venezuelans are tired of arrogance, we are tired of the ‘messiahs’”express Marquez after making your candidacy official.

The applicant also reported “a democratic deficit” in this Caribbean country. “We have to work to cover this deficit,” he continued.

He made no reference Ax.

““People are desperate for change and we want to represent that change.”he said Marquezwho asked to avoid calls for abstention, as did most of the opposition in the 2018 presidential electionsin which the president was re-elected Nicolás Maduro among fraud reports.

“The people made a decision and the decision is to change (…) and the instrument for change is the vote”, he stated. “I hope that if someone asks to abstain, the people will send them to hell.”

Earlier, Mature formalized his candidacy for a third term.

The president of CNE, Elvis Loving, confirmed that registrations will close at midnight. The formalization of the aspiration of Marquez The incident occurred at around 9pm local time (01am GMT Tuesday).

The coalition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) reported that it was blocked on the CNE in which political parties register their candidates. Corina Yorisappointed by Machado after being disqualified from public office, he is the candidate chosen by that opposition alliance.

Márquez belonged to the former Democratic Unity Table (replaced for Unitary Platform), but later created his own political party. He was director of the former opposition-majority Parliament (2016-2021).

Source: Elcomercio

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