The opposition in Venezuela is “fractured”

CARACAS (EFE).— Former anti-Chavista governor Andrés Velásquez said yesterday that the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD)—Venezuela’s main opposition alliance—is “fractured” because “some factors” in the coalition—which he did not specify—support “ another candidate” for the presidential elections on July 28 and not the standard bearer chosen by the bloc, Corina Yoris.

“Some factors of the Unitary Platform are already supporting another candidate, breaking, at least, that unitary agreement, (which) simply means that today that unity, from the electoral point of view, is clearly and openly fractured” said the national leader of the La Causa R party at a press conference.

And he remarked: “The electoral issue has fractured the platform.”

The PUD recently announced the decision to name the historian Corina Yoris as its presidential candidate, given the disqualification that weighs on former representative María Corina Machado, winner of last October’s primaries, which prevents her from competing for public office in elections until 2036.

However, the coalition reported impediments to registering Yoris within the deadline established for the presentation of candidacies, which ended on March 25, and following an extension “of hours” by the National Electoral Council (CNE), he managed to nominate, provisionally, to Edmundo González Urrutia.

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