President Biden’s White House on Tuesday criticized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro for barring a major opposition candidate from the country’s upcoming elections — a move Democrats have taken against Donald Trump as well. In response to what I tried to do.
María Colina Machado, 56, won Venezuela’s opposition primaries last year and opinion polls support her defeating Maduro in July’s general election, with Hugo Chávez’s successor It has the potential to end authoritarian rule.
However, Maduro’s government blocked the opposition coalition Platform for Democratic Unity (PUD) from registering candidates by late Tuesday night. Dr. Corina Yoris, who was chosen to succeed Mr. Machado, was also blocked.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Asked “Clearly, we are deeply concerned about the National Election Commission’s decision to block the registration of Democratic Opposition candidate Dr. Corinna Yoris,” Maduro said at a press conference on Air Force One Tuesday afternoon. “I am doing so,” he said. .
“We will work with other members of the international community to ensure that Venezuelans can participate in inclusive and competitive elections, and to urge President Maduro’s representatives to allow all candidates to run. We support the will and right of Venezuelans and their political parties to elect presidential candidates. We are closely monitoring the situation.”
He suggested that Venezuela could lose sanctions relief if the Maduro government does not provide free and fair elections.
The White House has remained silent about Democratic efforts to remove former President Trump from the vote, an effort that only ended last month when the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against such efforts. did.
Joel B. Pollack is a senior editor at Breitbart News. Breitbart News Sunday Sunday nights from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET (4:00 PM to 7:00 PM PT) on Sirius XM Patriot. He is the author of a new biography, Rhoda: “Comrade Cadderly, you are abnormal.”. He is also the author of a recently published e-book. Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 US Presidential Election. He is the recipient of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter @joelpolak.
