Venezuelans are set to pick who they think can end the decade-long crisis-ridden presidency of Nicolás Maduro. They will head to the polls Sunday for a primary election independently organized by the country’s opposition despite government repression and other obstacles.
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.
While the administration agreed in principle at midweek to let the opposition choose its candidate for the 2024 presidential election, it also has already barred the primary’s frontrunner, Maria Corina Machado, from running for office and has in the past bent the law and breached agreements as it sees fit.
In addition to Machado, nine other candidates remain in the race. The winner is expected to face Maduro at the ballot box in the second half of 2024. Maduro is looking to extend his presidency until 2030, which would surpass the time that Chávez, his mentor, governed. As part of the agreement, Maduro’s administration and the opposition are supposed to “recognize and respect the right of each political actor to select” a presidential candidate freely.
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.
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