Venezuela: María Corina Machado challenged the Chavista regime and resubmitted her candidacy but the electronic system rejected her

The Democratic Unity candidate, María Corina Machado, denounced in her story had not been able to register with the National Electoral Council (CNE) because the opposition parties that were supposed to nominate her do not appear in the electoral system, while her followers hoped to accompany her on the first day of nominations.

“At this moment, almost 12 hours after the start of the process, I inform you that the only two cards of the democratic unit eligible to apply to the CNE (MUD and UNT), They don’t have access to the system to do that“Machado wrote.

The candidate nomination process runs from March 21 to 25 and candidates must register during that period with papers from the parties supporting them.

The CNE directive he gave no explanation why which does not include, for now, the papers of the MUD (Democratic Unity Table, former charter of the PUD Democratic Unitary Platform) and the UNT (Un Nuevo tiempo) of governor Manuel Rosales.

The first to register were two politicians allied with Nicolás Maduro’s regime without any obstacle. They are Luis Eduardo Martínez, known by the pseudonym “el burro”, candidate for the Democratic Action party (intervened by the Government) and Daniel Ceballos, former mayor of Táchira, for the Voluntad Popular party and Arepa Digital.

The first of the members called on all opposition candidates to put their differences behind them and go united to the presidential elections on July 28 so that victory becomes a reality, while Ceballos, an opponent allied with the Chavista regime, has no scruples in flirting with the opposition.

Still with hope

“I am waiting for the call to accompany María Corina to the registration of her candidacy at the CNE,” he said Clarion Beatriz Campos. “I leave work at any time to go to the demonstration,” she added, very determined, hoping to see it recorded.

In the streets of Caracas, Lilian Hernández, leader of the “Women with María Corina”, was ready with her banners and propaganda material to accompany the unity’s candidate to register her application at the CNE when registrations opened this Thursday and “also for the one he appoints to replace her”.

The registration of the opposition candidate María Corina Machado, called this Thursday to participate in the presidential elections of July 28, despite the arbitrary disqualification weighing against her and the arrest of the heads of her electoral command, has maintained high expectations among her thousands of followers amid great uncertainty about the possibility of going to the CNE.

This Wednesday, one day before the violent attack against two of its main team leaders, Henry Alviarez and Dignora Hernández, by agents of SEBIN, the regime’s political police, and the arrest order for seven other members of its command, dictated by attorney Tarek William Saab. , Maria Corina has decided to change tactics in announcing its plans.

In addition to the arrests of Alviárez and Hernández, the Public Ministry (MP) issued arrest warrants against seven other people: Oswaldo Bracho, Pedro Urruchurtu, Omar González Moreno, Humberto Villalobos, Claudia Macero, Fernando Martínez Mottola and Magalli Meda (head of his campaign command).

With the arrest and arrest warrant for the leaders of his campaign team, The Chavista regime tries to leave the unity candidate alone and without much chance of him naming a replacement he trusts.

“The regime does this to close the electoral process a few hours after the nominations, as a sign of weakness because it knows it has been defeated,” said María Corina.

He claims that the statements of prosecutor Saab, the executive arm of Chavismo, are lies and that the government’s actions confirm what the United Nations Commission of Determination said today according to which the regime has systematically continued to violate human rights and imprison opponents , which was rejected by Nicolas Maduro’s government.

Prosecutor Saab said the arrests were made after one of the regional heads of María Corina’s command and her Vente Venezuela party, Emil Brandt, arrested last week, had “confessed” to an alleged conspiracy against Maduro. In the images that the Prosecutor’s Office showed online A drugged Brandt is seen reading a statement of the conspiracy plans.

The Liberal leader said she trusted Emil Brandt and “He doesn’t want to imagine what they did to him so that he said what he said. She warned that these actions will not serve to isolate her and leave her alone because she has the support of the people.

This same week, the Chavista CNE ordered the exclusion of 16 opposition political parties and movements from the 35 that had registered to participate in the July 28 elections. He left only two opposition organizations: the MUD charter (former coalition of the United Democratic Platform PUD which supports María Corina) and Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT) of governor Manuel Rosales.

It turned out that María Corina, in her meeting with Governor Manuel Rosales, who could play an important role in the debate, could use the UNT card for the candidacy that decides for the unity of the opposition.

Maduro panics

María Corina received enormous support from opposition organizations. Benigno Alarcón, director of the Center for Political and Government Studies of the Andrés Bello Catholic University, claims that the Maduro government has panicked and will do everything it can to divide the opposition.

For Alarcón, Prosecutor Saab’s decision is an action by the government to try to generate anxiety “a few hours before the start of the process of nominating candidates.”

According to Professor Alarcón this is “a desperate attempt to break the Unity and separate the opposition from the candidate elected in the primaries”.

“It is up to the opposition, and in particular Unidad, including Un Nuevo Tiempo and its leader, Manuel Rosales, to demonstrate what they have always said, that Unidad exists and must be stronger today than ever. The government has panicked and will do everything possible to divide the opposition,” he added on his X account.

The specialist underlined this in the next few hours We will know what the Venezuelan opposition is made of.

“I personally aspire and hope that in the next few hours the true opposition leadership will express itself with one voice and take the first steps to advance together towards a new democratic phase,” he concluded.