In Venezuela, the opposition to current President Nicolas Maduro announced on March 22 the name of the candidate who will run in the presidential election on July 28. Corina Yoris is expected to take the place of Maria Corina Machado, the popular opposition leader who was barred from running for office.
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With our correspondent in Caracas, Alice Campaignolle
The announcement of the person who will represent the opposition in the presidential election has been awaited for weeks. It is a substitute name since Maria Corina Machado, who handily won the primary in October 2023, cannot register as a candidate. Someone who has not been condemned by a justice system at the behest of power, and who is not being prosecuted either.
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It is therefore Corina Yoris, 80 years old, philosopher, academic unknown to the general public, who will personify the opposition during the election on July 28, if she herself is not disqualified from running by then. Ineligibility is the government’s strategy to crush opponents. Today, investigations predict that the current president, Nicolas Madurowould win between 20 and 30% of the votes, an insufficient score to win the election.
The government is therefore implementing anti-democratic methods to prevent the opposition does not find a place in the ballot. With an ineligible candidate, activists arrested, a campaign team pursued by the courts, anything goes.