Her main coalition opposition at Venezuela announced early this morning that he was unable to register candidate for July 28 presidential electionin which the outgoing head of state, Nicolas Maduro, will seek a third term.

The deadline for the registration of candidates before the National Electoral Council, which is accused by numerous analysts of trying to block opposition candidates under Maria Corina Machado, expired yesterday, Monday, at midnight.

“We are informing the national public and the world that we have been working all day (…) to try to exercise our constitutional right to nominate our candidate. This was not possible. We were not allowed to access the system” of registering candidates on the National Electoral Council’s website, Omar Barbosa, an opposition official, said in a video released by the main opposition coalition Democratic United Platform.

Nicolás Maduro, for his part, accompanied by a red sea of ​​thousands of his followers, submitted the candidacy of his party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). with speech and songs.

“I swear to you, to my mother, to my father, to the Holy Trinity, that on July 28 (when the presidential elections will be held, in one round), the day of Comandante Chávez’s 70th birthday, we will defeat them again,” he said Maduro, dressed in the colors of the Venezuelan flag. “The people have a plan, the people have the power, the people have a candidate, Nicolas Maduro Moros, (spiritual) child of Chávez,” he added.
The 61-year-old Nicolas Maduro is the heir to “Chavismo” for a “socialism of the 21st century”, based on nationalizations, a strong presence of the state and the military apparatus.

More than 60 countries, including the United States, did not recognize his re-election in 2018 in elections boycotted by the opposition. Its non-recognition had led to economic sanctions aimed mainly at the oil sector of the country, which has the largest reserves of black gold on the planet.

The…negligible candidates

Yesterday, Monday, in the evening, before the nominations closed, he managed to submit his nomination Enrique Marqueza famous oppositionist who had not, however, received the support of the Democratic United Platform.

“My candidacy currently has nothing to do with supporting any party. I am a independent politician. People are desperate for change,” said Marques, who added that he wants to avoid an election boycott like the one that took place in 2018. “The tool for change is the vote (…). I hope that if someone calls for abstinence, the people will ignore it.”

The National Electoral Council also announced early this morning the candidacy for the July 28 elections of another member of the opposition, Manuel Rosalescurrent governor of the northwestern oil-producing state of Sulia.

“Rosalez was registered as a candidate for the election by Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT). He was registered using automated means” on the National Electoral Council’s website, National Electoral Council chairman Elvis Amoroso announced last night, after the United Democratic Platform, to which UNT belongs, had announced earlier that it was unable to register her candidate because she was unable to access the system.