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Venezuela is preparing for its 2024 presidential election process. The event will take place this Sunday, July 28.
The South American country is preparing for a decisive event in its political history.
But leftist Nicolas Maduro, 61, has framed the process as a choice between “peace and war.”
Maduro, who has been president for the last two terms, He said that an opposition victory in Venezuela’s elections would result in a “bloodbath” for the country.
Nicolas Maduro is the president of Venezuela Since 2013, after the death of Hugo Chávez Frías and is seeking a third six-year term.
His main rival in the 2024 Venezuelan elections is opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who represents opposition leader María Corina Machado.
So she is prevented from to run due to political disqualification. This was made official just days before the deadline for registering his candidacy ended.
The opposition, during the campaign, has promised “reconciliation” and the return of millions of migrants.
It is estimated that five million Venezuelans They fled the country’s economic and humanitarian crisis over the past eight years.
Elections in Venezuela will be this Sunday
There are ten candidates running in Venezuela’s elections this Sunday: Maduro, González and eight other minorities.
However, the opposition leader González, 74, became known thanks to Machado and He now appears as the favorite in most polls.
“If we get to Sunday the 28th as we are now, it will obviously translate not only into a victory, but into a very wide victory,” said Luis Salamanca.
He is professor at the Central University of Venezuela told AFP.
However, Chavismo dismisses it and maintains that these polls are fabricated to justify a fraud claim.
“When the CNE (National Electoral Council) proclaim the victory of President Maduro, we are going to the streets to defend peace,” said his campaign manager, parliamentarian Jorge Rodríguez.
Some 21 million of the 30 million citizens are on the electoral register.
It is estimated that for this Sunday’s elections in Venezuela, Only 17 million people, who remain in Venezuela, could vote.