A faction of Venezuela’s opposition is set to pick its candidate for next year’s presidential election. Free-market firebrand María Corina Machado is the frontrunner in Sunday’s primary election. But even if she wins, it remains unclear if she would be allowed to run in 2024.
Opposition presidential hopeful Maria Corina Machado, center right, and opposition leader Freddy Superlano, center left, raise their arms for photographers during a campaign event in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. Superlano announced his withdrawal from the primaries and the support of his party, Popular Will, for Machado ahead of opposition primaries to choose one candidate to face President Nicolas Maduro in 2024 general elections.
But even if Machado wins, it remains unclear if she would be allowed to run in 2024. While Maduro’s government agreed in principle this week to allow the opposition to choose its candidate, it also has already barred Machado from running for office and has in the past bent the law and breached agreements as it sees fit.US eases oil, gas and gold sanctions on Venezuela after electoral roadmap signedAll the candidates in the primary have promised to topple Maduro.
People’s time is consumed by economic gymnastics. They may afford food today, but not tomorrow. They may get a government stipend today, but not tomorrow. They may fill up a tank with subsidized gasoline today, but not tomorrow. Still, a U.N.-backed panel investigating human rights abuses in Venezuela said last month that Maduro’s government has intensified efforts to curtail democratic freedoms ahead of the 2024 election. That includes subjecting some politicians, human rights defenders and other opponents to detention, surveillance, threats, defamatory campaigns and arbitrary criminal proceedings.
Aware Maduro has breached agreements before, the Biden administration has given Venezuela’s government until the end of November to establish a timeline and process to quickly reinstate all candidates. If Maduro does not meet the deadline, the U.S. government will reverse some of the sanctions relief.
Venezuelans typically vote on electronic machines set up at public schools. But the independent commission organizing the primary opted to use paper ballots and will set up voting centers at homes, churches, private schools and other facilities.
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