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Manuel Rosales, a former rival of Hugo Chávez, was signed up around midnight on Monday, shortly before the nominations closed, to face the president. Nicolás Maduro in the elections in Venezuelaafter the main opposition coalition reported that it was prevented from presenting its candidate.
A New Time (UNT)one of the political parties that make up the opposition coalition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD)applied to Manuel Rosales as a candidate for the presidential elections on July 28, confirmed the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso.
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“They did it by automated means,” Amoroso said.
Rosales71 years old, He is governor of Zuliaan oil state on the western border with Colombia, and He faced the late Hugo Chávez in the 2006 presidential elections, when the socialist leader was at the height of his popularity.
Minutes before knowing your registration, the Plataforma Unitária reported that it “never” had access to the application system on a CNE web platform since the lawsuit was opened last Thursday.
Maturewho aspires to a third term that would project him to 18 years in power, previously registered his aspiration with great fanfare and without any restrictions.
The Unitary Platform planned to register Corina Yoris appointed to take the place of María Corina Machado, who had won the primaries of this party alliance last year.
Machado was favorite in the polls, but was disqualified hold public office for 15 years.
“We inform national public opinion and the world that we have been working all day, meeting in permanent session, to try to exercise our constitutional right to nominate our candidate and this has not been possible. They did not allow us to access the application system,” said leader Omar Barboza in a video released by the coalition.
Neither Machado nor Plataforma Unitária commented on the governor’s nomination.
On the verge of closure, the former electoral director and former opposition parliamentarian Henrique Márquez He presented his candidacy as “independent”.
“My candidacy has nothing to do, for now, with the support of any party of the so-called Unitary Platform”, explained Márquez, who belonged to the former Round Table of Democratic Unity, replaced by the PUD, but who later created his own political party . . “This is autonomous, I am an independent politician.”
“Win back”
Maduro arrived at the CNE in a red SUV, accompanied by thousands of activists called by the government Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)carrying a sign with a charcoal illustration of the faces of independence hero Simón Bolívar and Chávez.
Another dozen groups linked to Chavismo formalized their support for the president.
“I swear to you (…), on July 28th, Commander Chávez’s 70th birthday, we will beat them again,” The ruler said before a crowd on a platform near the electoral body after making his aspiration official.
Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay expressed in a joint statement “their concern about the impediment to registration” of the opposition.
Political scientist Jorge Morán told AFP that With the blockade of the Unitary Platform, Chavismo sought to repeat the 2018 scenario, when most of the opposition boycotted the presidential elections, calling for abstention and denouncing fraud.
Nine candidates who presented themselves as opponents also competed.but in some cases they were marked as “scorpions“, a term used in Venezuela appoint “collaborators” of the Chavista government.
He CNE now has the last word after failed challenges. The applications must be approved and Amoroso announced that he will be informed of the accepted aspirations on Tuesday.
Mature He reported that two armed men he linked to Machado’s party, Vente Venezuela, were detained after infiltrating the Chavismo rally with the plan to assassinate him; what this group described as an “unfounded accusation”. The prosecutor’s office announced that they will be charged with terrorism and attempted murder.
Seven party leaders have been arrested in recent days and the Public Ministry has issued arrest warrants for another seven.
Source: Elcomercio
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