The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have condemned the government of Nicolas Maduro for the exclusion of the opposition candidate, Corina Yoris, from the presidential vote on 28 July in Venezuela.
"We strongly condemn the exclusion of a serious and credible candidate," Macron declared in a press conference at the Planalto Palace, at the end of a three-day official visit to Brazil.
Lula called the situation "serious", adding: "there is no legal or political explanation for prohibiting the candidacy of an opponent".
With Machado banned from public office for the next fifteen years, the plan of the oppositions united in the Democratic Unitary Platform (Pud) was to register a replacement, indicated in the university professor of philosophy, Corina Yoris. But there was no way and in the end, in an emergency, Edmundo Gonzalez Urruti was nominated.
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