Opposition leader Juan Guaidó leads the Unitary Platform candidate list who will compete in the open primaries of the opposition, scheduled for 2023, to choose the candidate of the unit that will face Nicolás Maduro in the next presidential elections in Venezuela in 2024.

The objective of the opposition led by Guaidó and the platform of 10 parties that supports it is to lead a unified candidate that can bring about a change in the Chavista government which has been in power for 23 years, which has plunged the country into poverty, misery and destruction and its complex humanitarian crisis with 6.8 million Venezuelans displaced by mass exodus .

The Unitary Platform, led by its executive secretary Omar Barboza, has been criticized because it has not yet announced the members of the electoral commission in charge of organizing the open primaries, nor the date of the internal ones, nor whether it will be with the help of the National Electoral Council ( CNE) and whether Venezuelan voters abroad will be able to vote.

Among the candidates of the opposition platform are, in addition to Guaidó, the former governor of Táchira, César Pérez Vivas, María Corina Machado (conditioned her participation if she is not with CNE), Carlos Prosperi of Acción Democrática, Andrés Velásquez of Causa R, Williams Dávila (AD en Resistencia); Delsa Solórzano (City meeting); Manuel Rosales (UNT) Governor of the state of Zulia; Roberto Enriquez (Copei); Carlos Ocariz and Juan Pablo Guanipa (First Justice), among others.

Other applications

Guaidó surprised last week when Voluntad Popular, which he co-founded with Leopoldo López (exiled to Spain), launched him as his standard bearer for the Unitary Platform primaries.

In his latest interview with ClarioneGuaid the possibility of running for the opposition primary had appeared. But what is surprising is that he has not announced it openly and answered questions about what the interim government and the presidency of the National Assembly will look like in 2015, both positions he held for three years and how the recognition of nearly 50 countries will now examine who is a candidate of unity.

For the presidential election of 2024, the date on which Maduro is expected to leave office, About four blocks of pre-candidates emerged who intend to participate in the elections, for a total of 21 pre-candidates from various opposition and independent organizations.

The list of pre-candidates of the independent opposition is completed by Antonio Ecarri (El Pencil); Gustavo Duque, mayor of the municipality of Chacao (Neighborhood Force); Nicmer Evans, Chavista dissident (Movement for Democracy and Inclusion); and the journalist Manuel Isidro Molina (Alternative Popular Movement).

There is another part of the opposition, opposed to their namesake of the Unitary Platform who have been stripped of their electoral signs and cards, with the intervention of the Supreme Court of Justice, where five candidates compete.

These are the so-called “scorpions” Bernabé Gutiérrez and Laidy Gómez (AD); Juan Carlos Alvarado (Copei); Leocenis García (Procittadini); and Claudio Fermín (Solutions).

Alliance I am Venezuela

Soy Venezuela, founded in 2017, is a coalition of political parties, civil organizations and social leaders, including Antonio Ledezma, former metropolitan mayor of Caracas; Diego Arria, former ambassador to the UN; and María Corina Machado, founder of the Vente Venezuela (VV) movement.

The group is composed, in addition to VV, by Alianza Bravo Pueblo, Convergencia and Gente Emergente.

its forte he is among 6 million Venezuelan voters abroadr, that if they could vote they would give another turn to the opposition primaries.