The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) approached the nomination of President Nicolás Maduro for this year's elections, pointing out that the activists who participated in the consultative assemblies want him to be their candidate.
The PSUV stated in a statement that more than 4.2 million people who participated in these meetings demonstrated “in a united way” for Maduro to be their presidential candidate in the elections scheduled for July 28.
The formalization of Maduro's candidacy should take place next Friday (15), in a meeting announced by the PSUV last week.
Since January, PSUV leaders have moved forward with Maduro's nomination. Later that month, congressman Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, referred to the president as “our candidate.”
And, on Monday (11), the party's first vice-president, Diosdado Cabello, spoke in the same vein. “The PSUV bases have decided that Nicolás Maduro will be the presidential candidate”, highlighted Cabello in a message on his account on the social network X, formerly Twitter.
In this year's elections, Maduro will seek his third presidential term. The first began in April 2013, weeks after the death of President Hugo Chávez.
The second term began in January 2019, after Maduro won the 2018 elections, a result that a coalition of opposition parties rejected.
On March 5, the National Electoral Council announced the date of the vote and Maduro said during a public event: “I am sure that the people will fight their battle again and will once again obtain a great victory.”
On the opposition side, leader María Corina Machado, winner of the primaries held in October, accuses the Maduro government of having promoted a disqualification against her to prevent her from running.
For Machado, the Executive does not want her to be on the ballot because they fear being defeated in a free contest.
Machado was impeached in 2015 by the Comptroller General of Venezuela, which decided to sanction her, alleging administrative irregularities in the sworn statements about her assets and a possible connection with alleged acts of corruption attributed to former opposition deputy Juan Guaidó.
On January 26, the Venezuelan Supreme Court approved the disqualification.
Source: CNN Brasil
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