2023-07-01 06:11:06
María Corina Machado was considered disqualified by the Comptroller General; two other opponents of Nicolás Maduro have already had the same sentences
EFE/ Miguel Gutierrez María Corina Machado is the third opponent of Maduro to be considered disqualified
One of the favorite pre-candidates for the 2024 presidential elections in VenezuelaMaría Corina Machado, from the most radical wing of the opposition, was disqualified from holding public office for 15 years, according to a letter from the Comptroller General released this Friday, the 30th. including the two-time presidential candidate Henrique Caprilesin addition to Juan Guaidowho went into exile USA in April, it was read by congressman José Brito. “I have the duty to inform that the citizen María Corina Machado Parisca was imposed the sanction of disqualification from holding any public office on July 13, 2015”, for a period of 15 years, says the text. The United States, which has an old dispute with the socialist government of Nicolás Maduro, which includes an embargo on Venezuelan oil, protested against the measure imposed on the opposition, as did the OAS and the leftist government of Colombia. The disqualification “deprives the Venezuelan people of basic political rights,” said Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesman. “Venezuelans deserve the right to choose a candidate to participate in the 2024 presidential elections without interference,” he added.
According to the Comptroller’s Office, María Corina’s disqualification was based on “administrative irregularities” when she was a deputy (2011-2014). At first, the disqualification imposed in 2015 was valid for one year, but the Comptroller continued to investigate it in the following years. The opponent is also accused of having participated in “a network of corruption” led by Guaidó, recognized, between January 2019 and January 2023, as interim president of Venezuela by 50 countries that did not recognize the re-election of President Nicolás Maduro in 2018, for considering it “fraudulent”. “No one is surprised, this was yet to come, but if they believe or thought that this farce of disqualification was going to discourage participation in the primaries, they should be prepared, because if we had strength, now we are going to do it with more force”, said María Corina in an act political.
*With information from AFP
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