Elections in Venezuela: who is Corina Yoris, the opposition’s last hope to face Maduro

The process of submission of applications for the presidential elections of 28 July enVenezuela ends on Monday with the registration of Chavista Nicolás Maduro, while the majority of the opposition hopes to be able to run Corina Yoris -his candidate due to the disqualification of María Corina Machado-, despite the obstacles that, according to the complaint, prevented him from doing so.

At least since last Thursday, when this process began nine candidates, who are the deputies Luis Eduardo Martínez, Juan Alvarado, José Brito and Javier Bertucci, the former mayors Claudio Fermín and Daniel Ceballos, the opposition Antonio Ecarri, the comedian Benjamín Rausseo and Luis Ratti, critic of the broader sector of anti-Chavismo.

The presentation documents of these politicians before the National Electoral Council (CNE), in Caracas, They were all broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), as well as the nomination of Maduro’s candidacy by various organizations linked to Chavismo, including the Movimento Futuro Venezuela, launched this Saturday.

But the main opposition coalition, the Democratic United Platform (PUD), reported impediments to accessing the electoral system and registering Yoris’s candidacy, chosen unanimously last Friday as part of, as Machado explained at the time, a mechanism to address the obstacle that – he stated – representsor ban, ratified in January by the Supreme Court.

Who is Corina Yoris?

Corina Yoris He is 80 years old and has never held public office. A prestigious academic and university professor, she was part of the opposition’s National Primary Commission, in which Corina Machado obtained 90% of the votes on October 22. It remains to be seen whether she will be able to register her candidacy, the deadline expires this Monday and he has not yet managed to do so. “a technical problem”. The registration closes at midnight.

Your application raised hopes.

“We will fight this battle together,” said Corina Machado, who will continue to be the face of the campaign. “I will continue to travel throughout Venezuela, bringing strength and hope to every corner of the country,” she added.

But the United Democratic Platform (PUD), which brings together most of the opposition parties in Venezuela, reported on Sunday that it had not had access to the official system to register Yoris’s candidacy.

The PUD asked the CNE extend for three days -until next Thursday, March 28- the deadline for appeals, in order to “correct the violations of fact and law that occurred in the process”.

Corina Yoris had to come out into the open this Sunday to deny a lie spread on social networks in which she claims that she cannot stand for election becauseHe has dual nationality, Venezuelan and Uruguayan.

“I categorically deny the information circulating about my alleged dual nationality. I was born in Caracas, my parents were born in Venezuela and “I have never opted for a nationality other than Venezuelan,” Yoris clarified on the X network.

Even the governor of the oil state of Zulia, Manuel Rosales, already a presidential candidate in 2006, was unable to make his candidacy official.

For its part, Chavismo invited its supporters to participate today in a “large national march in support of the registration of the candidate Nicolás Maduro” before the electoral body.

With information from EFE, AFP and RFI