The Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), the main opposition alliance in Venezuela, denounced this Monday that it is being prevented from accessing the candidacy of historian Corina Yoris for the presidential elections on July 28, with just over one hour until the registration period closes.
«We denounce all Venezuelans and the world: with just two hours left until the application period closes, we have never been allowed access. The vast majority of the people want to vote to achieve change for Venezuela with the power of the vote,” said the anti-Chavista coalition in a message published in X.
During this last day of candidate registration, the PUD stated that it had exhausted all avenues to be able to register its candidate, despite proposing a person who does not have any disqualification or administrative sanction.
“We have exhausted all the means at our disposal so that this can be resolved,” Yoris, chosen as a presidential candidate by the PUD last Friday, said in a press conference in the face of the disqualification that prevents former deputy María Corina Machado, winner of the primaries last October, compete for public office in these and other elections until 2036.
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On Sunday, the PUD asked the National Electoral Council (CNE) to extend the period to nominate candidates for three days, in order to “correct the factual and legal violations that have occurred in the process.”
However, the president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso, indicated, in an event in which he received the nomination from the former opposition electoral director Enrique Márquez, that the candidacy registration process will close this Monday at 11:59 local time (03:59 GMT). EFE
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