María Corina Machado leaves the door open to an alternative opposition candidacy in Venezuela. The Unitary Platform maintains its support for Machado, who will not be able to register.

Manuel Rosales, the governor of the state of Zulia, has an interest in being a presidential candidate. Luis Emilio Rondón, one of his trusted men, has publicly put his name on the table, as a potential man of unity in the event of an inevitable replacement of Machado.