Presidential elections in Venezuela: the main candidates close their campaigns

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Caracas.-Venezuela closes its electoral campaign on Thursday, after 21 days, with calls for massive demonstrations of support for the main candidates – the ruling party candidate Nicolás Maduro and the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia.

Nicolas Maduro, in power since 2013, will hold his closing ceremony in Caracas, where he plans to occupy several avenues with supporters who will travel from different parts of the country, while Edmundo González Urrutia, standard-bearer of the majority opposition, will lead an event in an area in the east of the capital together with the anti-Chavez leader María Corina Machado.

Chavismo intends to take over the entire city for 12 hours, according to the campaign command, while the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – the main opposition bloc – has called on its supporters to a rally scheduled for 4:00 p.m. local time (8:00 p.m. GMT).

PUD candidate Edmundo González Urrutia posted a message on social network X.

“In three days we vote for democracy for all,” he wrote. “We will win.”

Corina Machado, for her part, published a video message late yesterday in which she called on her followers to participate in the closing of the campaign in Caracas to celebrate “with our next president Edmundo González.”

Opponents led one of the last campaign events in the state of Zulia

PUD candidate González Urrutia arrives at this event recharged from his penultimate activity, which took place in the state of Zulia (west, bordering Colombia), where on Tuesday he gathered a crowd of supporters who waited for him for hours on several streets, which he crossed in a caravan with Corina Machado.

Meanwhile, Maduro will give his last speech after numerous rallies in the country’s 23 states that were broadcast entirely on the state-run channel Venezolana de Televisión, which devoted the entire campaign to promoting the president’s candidacy, leaving only exceptional and brief spaces for the dissemination of proposals from the other nine contenders.Infobae.