Venezuelan opposition has managed to register more than 90,000 witnesses for elections

Venezuela’s main opposition alliance, the Democratic Unitary Platform, has resolved technical difficulties on the electoral authority’s digital platform to accredit their representatives at the voting tables for the presidential elections next Sunday, July 28, announced this Wednesday its candidate, the diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia.

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“We have achieved, thanks to our volunteers, “obtain the credentials of all witnesses who will be at the 30,026 polling stations across the country,” González Urrutia posted on social network X.

These witnesses represent the political parties at the voting centers and They are tasked with ensuring that the elections are conducted correctly.

The opposition coalition Plataforma Unitaria, which supports González Urrutia, denounced last Tuesday that this organization had registered more than 90,000 witnesses, but that “technical problems” on the web of the National Electoral Council (CNE) had prevented the printing of the credentials necessary to carry out their duties at the voting centers on Sunday.

González Urrutia, 74, was nominated by the Unitary Platform in place of opposition leader María Corina Machado, who won her primaries last year but was disqualified from holding public office.

Maduro, 61, is seeking a third term that will put him in power for 18 years. accuses the opposition of a plan to denounce fraud and generate street violence.

Maduro’s re-election in 2018 was rejected by the opposition amid allegations of fraud, as well as by the United States, the European Union and most Latin American countries.

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