Anti-Chavismo presents primary ballot, just over a month before its elections

The Venezuelan opposition presented this Sunday the ballot that will be used in the primary elections on October 22, in which anti-Chavismo will define – among 13 candidates – its standard bearer for the 2024 presidential elections, whose elections do not yet have an established date.

The names of the candidates are distributed in two columns and in alphabetical order, starting with the former electoral director Andrés Caleca and ending with the former representative Tamara Adrián, who in 2016 became the first transsexual legislator in Latin America.

The ballot model is black and white and does not include photographs of the candidates or the symbols of the political organizations that support each of them.

Some opposition leaders had been demanding the dissemination of this card for weeks to begin teaching supporters of each candidate to locate their names, with a view to a more rapid development of the elections.

Once the National Primary Commission (CNP) published the ballot, most of the candidates and their parties spread it on social networks to ask for the vote, indicating the location of each of the contenders.

The CNP stressed that those who vote on October 22 must mark an X next to the name of their preferred candidate.

One of the competitors who has not released the ballot is former governor Henrique Capriles, who announced yesterday that, “for personal and family reasonshas done “a pause” in his campaign activities, which he hopes to resume in the coming days.

The CNP defined 3,010 voting centers for this process in Venezuela, which will not have the assistance of the country’s electoral body, and in which 13 politicians will be measured, several of them with political disqualifications from holding public office.

Source: EFE