Venezuela confirmed that the upcoming presidential elections will take place on July 28, when the president of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amorosogave a statement to the media on Tuesday.
The date of July 28 coincides with the birth of the deceased president Hugo Chavezseen as a mentor to the current president Nicolas Madurothe natural candidate for re-election, as the opposition faces the disqualification of its main candidate.
The date was approved unanimously, and will mark a distance of almost five months between the elections and the inauguration of the winner, on January 10, 2025.
Amoroso, declared that the schedule “contemplates all constitutional, legal and technical requirements,” who was also a former comptroller responsible for disqualifications of opponents and sanctioned by the United States in 2017 and the European Union (EU) in 2020.
The candidates for the presidency of Venezuela
Maduro is traveling to the province to government and political actswhich seem to be part of the campaign, since these trips, until now, were exceptional.
The opposition, in contrast, is under pressure. In practice, she does not have a candidate, after a 15-year disqualification from holding public office against the former deputy was ratified. Maria Corina Machadowinner of her primaries.
The deadline to register candidatures It was set between March 21 and 25 and the electoral campaign will be from July 4 to 25.
“He is giving the opposition 20 days to resolve” a possible alternative candidate to Machado, Luis Vicente León, director of the pollster Datanalisis, told AFP at a time when the opposition leader remains active in political events despite the fact that her disqualification, ratified by the supreme court in January, does not will allow you to register.
The government and the opposition had agreed on elections in the second half of 2024 in negotiations mediated by Norway, in a pact that contemplates the observation of the European Union and other international actors.
The participation of the European Union
The EU sent a mission in 2021 in the last gubernatorial and mayoral elections. It identified improvements in the voting system, but also irregularities such as the use of public resources in the campaign, the “arbitrary” disqualification of candidates and the establishment of control points by the ruling party in voting centers.
Their presence in the country ended abruptly, after Maduro brand observers as “enemies” and “spies.”
Maduro, who has governed since 2013 after being anointed by Chávez before his death, said earlier this year that it was “premature” to confirm whether he would seek a third term, although important Chavista leaders take his candidacy for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela for granted ( PSUV).
His re-election in 2018 was called “fraudulent” by the oppositionwhich boycotted the elections, and the United States, which imposed a battery of sanctions to try, unsuccessfully, to remove him from power. The EU also ignored the result.
Machado has not yet reacted to the schedule, but it was stated that “it is very clear that María Corina is not going to be a candidate” and “he will not allow a replacement of his candidacy by someone he does not name directly.”
“On March 21, all of Venezuela accompanies our unitary candidate to register“, wrote in X the leader Juan Guaidó, exiled in the United States.
Source: Ambito
