The United States government condemned the decision of the Venezuelan regime, through its Comptroller’s Office, to disqualify the opposition candidate María Corina Machado from participating in the opposition primaries scheduled for October for the 2024 presidential elections.
“Today’s decision (…) deprives the Venezuelan people of basic political rights,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement. “Venezuelans deserve the right to select a candidate to participate in the 2024 presidential elections without interference.”
Likewise, the spokesman assured that he was deeply concerned about the efforts to remake the National Electoral Council (CNE), which is in the process of restructuring.
The Venezuelan Comptroller General’s Office reported Friday that Machado, who was registered to participate in the Venezuelan opposition’s October primary elections, is disqualified from holding public office for a period of 15 years.
The Comptroller’s Office was based on an alleged corruption plot that was “orchestrated” by former opposition deputy Juan Guaidó, which caused the “criminal blockade” of Venezuela in which it was allegedly involved, as well as the “blatant dispossession of companies and wealth of the nation abroad with the complicity of corrupt governments.
In reaction to the measure, the opposition described as “useless” the political disqualification, in which the Venezuelan opposition coalition called the Unitary Platform, which has participated in the dialogues with the government of President Nicolás Maduro, joined the rejection of this measure. governmental.
The recent reaction of the State Department spokesman comes amid the approach of the government led by Joe Biden to the Nicolás Maduro regime, including trips by US officials to Caracas, despite the fact that there is no US embassy in the Venezuelan capital since it was formally broke relations between the two nations in 2019.
With information from the EFE agency
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