04/25/2024
The Comptroller of Venezuelaof the official line, reported on Wednesday that politically disqualified five opponents – two current mayors and three former deputies –who join an extensive list of leaders that includes leader María Corina Machado.
This type of sanction has been systematically practiced during the Chavismo era, targeting leaders with wide popularity such as Machado, who won the opposition primaries and is a favorite in the polls, but was ineligible for the July 28 elections in which President Nicolás Maduro will seek a third term.
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The sanctions were announced for a period of 15 years for mayors Elías Sayegh of the El Hatillo municipality of the Caracas Metropolitan Area, and José Antonio Fernández López of the Los Salias municipality of Miranda state (center).
Also The former deputies were disqualified for 15 years Tomás Guanipa and Carlos Ocariz, former mayor of the Sucre municipality (2008-2017), while The sanction was 12 months for former parliamentarian Juan Carlos Caldera. All co-partisans of the two-time presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, another disqualified by the Comptroller’s Office, in 2017.
The resolutions where they are based The disqualifications are dated April 16 2024, according to the document published by the Comptroller’s Office on its official website. Ocariz, Guanipa and Caldera, who together with Capriles are part of the Primero Justicia (PJ) party, They rejected the measures.
“No matter what they do, or how they do it, nothing distracts us, no one takes us off the electoral route. On July 28, everyone to vote!”Guanipa said in X, where his co-partisans made a similar call.
The main opposition alliance Platform of Democratic Unity (PUD) He described the disqualifications as “illegal”.
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The opposition has been denouncing obstacles and attacks ahead of the July electoral process, after blockages for the registration of candidates, and the intervention of parties such as PJ, whose control was handed over through the courts to dissident José Brito, identified as a government collaborator.
According to the leader God given hair, considered number two of chavismo, In the opposition there are “cheaters” and this Wednesday he urged the electoral authority to review the nominations of opposition candidates for the presidential elections.
In 2025 Venezuela must also hold elections for mayors and governors and, according to electoral expert Eugenio Martínezthe five disqualified “are “potential candidates for regional and parliamentary positions.”
