The parties also agreed to respect the internal election processes of each political actorwhen the opposition is preparing to elect, on Sunday, the candidate who will face the president Nicolás Maduro.
The document proposes “that the presidential election process be carried out in the second half of the year 2024taking into account the constitutional schedule”.
The date of the elections is defined by the National Electoral Council (CNE)whose board was renewed in August.
International observers
The document calls for an update of the electoral registry, including abroad, a request from the opposition, and for “technical electoral observation missions” to be invited.
Among them, the European Union, highly criticized by Chavismo after its observation in the 2021 regional elections, the UN panel of electoral experts, the African Union, the Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations and the Carter Center.
The dialogue process between the government and the opposition Unitary Platform coalition began in August 2021 and since then has been interrupted twice, the last in November 2022, after Maduro’s delegation conditioned the dialogue on the disbursement of 3,000 million of dollars of frozen Venezuelan funds abroad.
Electoral disqualifications
One point that remained unresolved was related to the political disqualifications, a flag for the opposition that calls them unconstitutional.
The agreement talks about allowing all candidates “as long as they meet the established requirements to participate in presidential re-election, consistent with the procedures established in Venezuelan law.”
María Corina Machado, The favorite in the internal elections to face Maduro, in theory she will not be able to run for president because she has been disqualified for 15 years.
Ripe – who in the process calls for the lifting of sanctions against his government – announced on Monday that the agreements would be “beneficial for the country.”
Source: Ambito
