The suspense was already reduced to nothing: the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro, elected since 2013 but whose legitimacy of re-election in 2018 is contested by more than 60 countries, was nominated on Saturday by his party to run for a third term during the presidential election on July 28.
The United Socialist Party (PSUV), of which he is president,
“decided by acclamation, by consensus, that the candidate of the Bolivarian revolution is Nicolas Maduro
,” declared the vice-president of the party, Diosdado Cabello, considered the number 2 from power during a party congress on Saturday in Caracas.
The Supreme Court has already dismissed the main opponents of the presidential election.