It will be the first time since Chavismo came to the government of Venezuela, in 1999, that the official candidate for the governor of Barinas will not carry the surname Chávez.
Maduro explained that Arreaza was chosen for being “a proven, honest, capable and brave man”, and after deliberations that the bases and the leadership of the PSUV carried out between Thursday and today, to which they added “measurements, surveys and focus groups “.
The president stressed that the decision involved “above all a moral reflection: to whom to hand over the reins of the state that is the cradle of Commander Chávez.”
Despite not having his last name, Arreaza was related to Chávez, since between 2007 and 2017 he was married to his eldest daughter, Rosa Virginia.
Meanwhile, the opposition Democratic Unity Table (MUD) made Aurora Silva official yesterday, the wife of Freddy Superlano, who won the annulled elections but, according to the Supreme Court, is disqualified from holding public office, according to the Caracas daily Tal Cual.
Silva’s candidacy was supported today by the Democratic Alliance, a coalition of leaders and parties split two years ago from the bulk of the opposition and with a fluid relationship with the government of President Nicolás Maduro, and which led its own candidate in the November elections. , according to the newspaper El Universal.
Silva is a telecommunications engineer with no political background, although her nomination recalls those of Rosa Brandonisio and Patricia Gutiérrez, who in 2014 were elected mayors of the San Diego (Carabobo state) and San Cristóbal (Táchira) municipalities shortly after their husbands, Enzo Scarano and Daniel Ceballos, were removed from those same positions and imprisoned by the Maduro government.
Last Monday, the TSJ annulled the elections in Barinas, in which the opposition prevailed for the first time in 22 years, and the following day ordered that they be held again on January 9.
The court admitted that, according to the scrutiny of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Superlano surpassed the current governor and candidate for reelection, Argenis Chávez – Hugo’s brother – with 37.60% to 37.21% of the votes.
However, he invalidated the elections by virtue of an appeal filed by a leader of the Democratic Alliance according to which the Comptroller General of the Republic disqualified Superlano last August.
“We had not received any notification from the Comptroller of this office, although we did receive others, more than 30, enabling or disabling people during the application process,” said Roberto Picón, one of the five directors of the CNE and of the two who voted in dissent with the Chavista majority of the body that decided to abide by the decision of the Supreme Court.
That same Tuesday, Argenis Chávez announced in a press conference that he was resigning from the Barinas governorship – which was left in charge of the hitherto Secretary of Government, Jesús Monsalve – and was putting his candidacy “at the disposal” of the PSUV.
Barinas, in whose city Sabaneta Hugo Chávez was born, has been governed since 1999 by members of his family: Hugo de los Reyes Chávez, father of the ex-president, until 2008, and his brothers Adán (2008-17) and Argenis (since 2017).
In that period there were only two brief internships: one in charge of Zenaida Gallardo, when Adán Chávez was appointed Minister of Culture, in 2017, and the current one, in the hands of Monsalve.
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