Edmund Gonzalez Urrutia: Candidate for Venezuela’s Presidential Elections 2022

2024-03-26 20:42:00
Edmund Gonzalez Urrutia

The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela reported this Tuesday of the registration, as a candidate for the presidential elections on July 28 by the Democratic Unity Roundtable (current Democratic Unitary Platform), of Edmundo González Urrutia, after the coalition failed to nominate Corina Yoris, the one chosen as María Corina Machado was unable to compete due to being disqualified.

After a 12-hour extension granted by the CNE after the closing of the application period, the Unitary Platform finally managed to enter the application system this Tuesday to register González Urrutia.

The objective of this action is to reserve the space on the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) card for future negotiations with the Nicolás Maduro regime, with the intention of allowing a unitary candidacy of the opposition.

The nomination of González, who previously served as Venezuela’s ambassador to Argentina and Algeria, was confirmed by the president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso, in statements broadcast by VTV.

The nomination process, which closed on the night of March 25 with 12 registered candidates, admitted the nomination of Governor Manuel Rosales through the card of his Un Nuevo Tiempo party, with the support of Fuerza Vecinal, representing several mayors and councilors. identified as opposition.

Archive photograph of the headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE), in Caracas (Venezuela) (EFE/ Rayner Peña R.)

Until noon this Tuesday, the formal candidacy of the Unitary Platform had been presented by the academic Corina Yoris, who was designated as a substitute for María Corina Machado, elected in the primaries on October 22. However, Machado faces a 15-year political disqualification.

The leaders of the Unitary Platform denounced multiple obstacles during the application process, particularly related to blocks on the MUD and UNT cards. However, the isolated registration of Rosales by his party was achieved at the end of the deadline.

Rosales, Hugo Chávez’s rival in 2006, defended on Tuesday his candidacy in the July presidential elections in Venezuela, which he presented at the last minute without the endorsement of opposition leader María Corina Machado, who was prevented from participating in the elections.

“I had to make a decision which was to open a space for Venezuelans to vote or to abstain and have Maduro stay there for six more years without doing anything else,” said Rosales in his first statements to the press after running after the election. midnight.

Rosales, 71, made the nomination at the last minute with his party Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT), after access to the automated platform for nominating candidates was blocked.

Machado had confirmed that he would remain on the electoral route, without explaining how he would do so, given the impossibility of registering his candidate within the deadline established by the CNE.

Regarding Rosales’ application, the former deputy avoided responding and insisted on several occasions that her candidate and that of the PUD is still Corina Yoris, even though she could not register in the CNE system.

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