Chavismo nominates Maduro as its presidential candidate - 2024-03-17 01:54:23

AME5710. CARACAS (VENEZUELA), 03/05/2024.- Photograph provided by the Miraflores Palace showing the president of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro holding a flag with the image of the deceased president Hugo Chávez this Tuesday, at a government event in Caracas ( Venezuela). Maduro said this Tuesday that the people “will again win a great victory” in the presidential elections of this July 28, for which he has not yet confirmed whether he will seek a second re-election, even though his party takes it for granted. . EFE/ Palacio de Miraflores /EDITORIAL USE ONLY/ ONLY AVAILABLE TO ILLUSTRATE THE ACCOMPANYING NEWS (MANDATORY CREDIT)

Thousands of Chavistas nominated the president this Saturday Nicolas Maduro as its candidate for the presidential elections on July 28, in more than 15,800 assemblies that, according to the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), were held throughout the country, as part of a process to choose its candidate for these elections. .

In a press release, the formation indicated that there were “more than 15,850 assemblies in each UBCh (Bolívar-Chávez Battle Unit)” – an organization dedicated to the defense of the so-called ‘Bolivarian revolution’ – with the objective of proposing to the “candidate of the homeland to achieve a great victory on July 28.”

Several of the Chavismo sympathizers who attended the meetings carried banners with messages such as “The women nominate Nicolás”, “The bases decide”, “I nominate Nicolás” and “The bases with Maduro”, according to the numerous photographs shared by the PSUV on social networks.

The vice president of Mobilization and Events of the PSUV, Nahum Fernández, assured that in several assemblies “the president’s fight for sovereignty” and for the defense of “national independence” has been recognized as “one of the fundamental achievements”, with the that he can “aspire again to the Presidency of the republic.”

Maria Corina Machado

This process began last Thursday, and since then Chavismo has held multiple meetings with its bases throughout the territory to propose the candidate for the presidential elections, who, if officially Maduro, in power since 2013, will seek a third six-year term. in command, in what would be his second re-election.

The head of state predicted this week that the people “will win a great victory” in the upcoming elections.

For her part, the former deputy Maria Corina Machadochosen as a presidential candidate by the opposition majority, recently claimed to have “the voters” to remove Chavismo from power in these elections, in which she hopes to compete despite being disqualified from holding elected public office until 2036. EFE