Freddy Superlano -Voluntad Popular’s candidate in the primaries- just quit. His party is now endorsing María Corina Machado. Copei’s candidate also quit.
A new round of negotiations between the government and the opposition, sponsored by Norway, will start tomorrow in Barbados. These negotiations are expected to come hand-in-hand with an agreement between Venezuela and the US to ease some sanctions in exchange for conditions for competitive elections in 2024.
Freddy Superlano -Voluntad Popular’s candidate in the primaries- just quit. His party is now endorsing María Corina Machado. Despite a quite rocky period during Juan Guaidó’s caretaker presidency, Machado and VP were close allies during the La Salida protests in 2014. “In the streets everybody claims and is convinced that María Corina is the primary’s winner”, Superlano said.
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Fuerza Vecinal -a relatively new party that is not a part of the Unitary Platform and controls Caracas’ wealthiest municipalities- is calling for the primaries to be suspended. It said the primary will be a failure, calls for a joint opposition candidature chosen by the different sectors of the opposition and claims the process’ finances are opaque… despite Fuerza Vecinal currently facing a series of corruption scandals.
The man who almost defeated Chavismo ten years ago checked out of the opposition primary election race with dwindling numbers and a weak excuse
“Freddy Superlano’s retirement in favor of María Corina Machado seemed to be a matter of time, mainly because Voluntad Popular’s exiled wing was never sure of his candidacy. Now the big question is: what consequence will this have inside the party?”, writes Raúl Castillo about the growing schism between VP in exile and VP in Venezuela.
