Seven Latin American countries express concern about elections in Venezuela

The Governments of Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay This Monday they expressed their “serious concern” before the “persistent impediments” in the registration of Venezuela’s presidential candidates before the National Electoral Council.

This is indicated in a statement that highlights that said situation and the previous disqualifications add “questions about the integrity and transparency of the electoral process as a whole”.

“At this time, the majority Venezuelan opposition parties—MUD and UNT—have not been able to register their candidate, Corina Yoris, to represent them in the next presidential elections. “This situation, together with the previous disqualifications that have been in the public domain, raises questions about the integrity and transparency of the electoral process as a whole,” underline the text.

Likewise, he maintains that said restrictions “they prevent progress towards elections that allow a democratization process to be carried out.”” In Venezuela.

In accordance with this, the Governments of those seven countries urged that the situation “be reconsidered” so that, at the end of the registration period, “citizens who meet the requirements enshrined in the Venezuelan Constitution can be duly registered, so that the brother Venezuelan people can freely choose their next government.”

The Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), the main opposition alliance in Venezuela, assured this Monday that it had exhausted all avenues to be able to register the candidacy of the historian Corina Yoris for the presidential elections on July 28, something that, according to what it denounced, is has prevented them.

“We have exhausted all means at our disposal so that this can be resolved,” Yoris, chosen as a presidential candidate by the PUD last Friday, said in a press conference in response to the disqualification that prevents former deputy María Corina Machado, winner of last October’s primaries, from competing for public office in these and other elections until 2036. .

Within hours of the end of the process of presenting candidates for the presidential elections, which began last Thursday, Yoris denounced that his “rights as a Venezuelan citizen are being violated,” by not being able to “access the system and register”u name.

“It is not only the rights of Corina Yoris that are being violated, but it is also the rights of the political parties to offer a candidacy that represents that unity and it is also denying the rights of Venezuelans to nominate and elect the candidate they want to elect. ”, expressed the also university professor.

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