Thank democratic leaders –

CARACAS (EFE).— The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado yesterday thanked the presidents of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and of France, Emmanuel Macron, for their position on the presidential elections of July 28 , in which they expressed their concern about the impossibility of anti-Chavismo to register the candidacy of Corina Yoris.

“I thank Presidents Emmanuel Macron, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Gustavo Petro for their positions in the last hours that reaffirm that our fight is fair and democratic,” María Corina published on her X account.

The anti-Chavista asked the “democratic leaders of the world” to unite to demand that Nicolás Maduro’s government allow the registration of Corina Yoris as a candidate for Venezuela’s main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD).

“It has become clear that there are no political or legal reasons that prevent Corina Yoris from being a candidate and that her exclusion, like mine, denies the possibility of free and fair elections,” he added.

María Corina, disqualified from holding elected office, gave the candidacy to the historian Corina Yoris, who could not be registered by the PUD either.

“We ask all democratic leaders in the world for their support for the full implementation of the Barbados Agreement, signed just a few months ago, to achieve free and fair elections in Venezuela,” he said.

On Thursday, the presidents of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and France, Emmanuel Macron, affirmed that the impediments to the registration of Yoris’ opposition candidacy in Venezuela are “serious.”

Lula, who spoke to the press in a joint appearance with his French counterpart, on an official visit to Brazil, stated that the fact that Corina Yoris has not been able to register as a candidate is something that has no “political or legal” explanation.

For its part, the Colombian government expressed its concern about the difficulties of the Venezuelan opposition in registering its candidacies for the presidential elections on July 28.