Venezuela: opposition leader calls for support from the international community. Winner of the opposition primary but declared ineligible, Maria Corina Machado had appointed to replace her a novice in politics, Corina Yoris, an 80-year-old academic.
But this could not be registered, without the National Electoral Council (CNE) giving an explanation, before the “provisional” candidacy of Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, a former ambassador and political scientist, was finally accepted. Many suspect the CNE of having knowingly blocked its registration.