Venezuela court disqualifies leading opposition presidential candidate

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Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal has upheld a ban which prevents presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado from holding office, upending the opposition’s plans for elections planned for later this year.

Machado, a former lawmaker, won the opposition’s independently run presidential primary last October with more than 90 percent of the votes, potentially putting her in a prime position to challenge longtime socialist leader Nicolas Maduro at the elections.

Her victory came despite the government announcing a 15-year ban on her running for office just days after she formally entered the race in June.

After the court issued its ruling on Friday, Machado posted on social media that her campaign’s “fight to conquer democracy through free and fair elections” is not over.




https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/27/venezuela-court-disqualifies-leading-opposition-presidential-candidate

[GreenWave]

1. So I tried to get the other side of the story/

Mexico failed to do in its Universal anything other than translate the US story.
Finally backtracking from a Venezuelan paper I wanted to know why they feel she was committing treason.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelas-machado-wins-presidential-primary-near-final-count-shows-2023-10-25/


...The deal did not rescind the public office bans for figures like Machado, who was barred for her support of the U.S. sanctions imposed in 2019

...The electoral violations stem from the primary being organized without the National Electoral Council, Saab said.
The opposition this month declined the council's offer of help and its request to delay the vote until November after the council took several months to respond to the opposition's request for assistance.
Voter rolls for the primary included 2 million people who neither registered nor participated, Saab said, and financing for the primary has not been made public.
"Obviously it is a fraud, who financed this, who is behind it?" Saab said. "The funds are not known. Who provided them?"