Venezuela Elections 2024 | Edmundo González Urrutia | MUD manages to register candidacy for the presidential elections

The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela reported this Tuesday of the registration, as a candidate for the presidential elections on July 28 by the Democratic Unity Roundtable (current Democratic Unitary Platform), of Eduardo González Urrutia, after the coalition failed to nominate Corina Yoris, the chosen one. as María Corina Machado was unable to compete due to being disqualified.

Elvis Amoroso president of CNEhe first dropped the name of Edmund Gonzalez Urrutia among the list of registered candidates, and then that of the party Democratic Unity Table (MUD)which absorbed the current Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD).

Corina Yoris nominated by Maria Corina Machado as a candidate, was left out without any explanation having been presented so far.

The PUD confirmed in a statement the “provisional” registration of Edward Gonzalez Urrutia and clarified that his elected candidacy could not be registered.

“In response to the request we made from the Unitary Platform al National Electoral Council, on behalf of the party Democratic Unity Table of being granted an extension to register the unitary candidacy, due to the impossibility of doing so within the expected period due to not allowing us access to the system, we announce to the country that we have been notified by the electoral entity that we have been granted a new period of hours to carry out the process,” the PUD said in the statement.

“In this sense, given the clear impossibility of registering the candidacy chosen by democratic factors so far, in order to continue fighting for it and guarantee the registration of said candidacy and stay within the electoral route, We have decided to provisionally register the President of the Board of Directors of the Democratic Unity Party Party, citizen Edmundo González Urrutia to preserve the exercise of the political rights that correspond to our political organization until we manage to register our unitary candidacy,” he concluded.

The PUD managed to register a candidate after having denounced, throughout the process of presenting candidates – which began last Thursday -, impediments to accessing the electoral system and registering a standard bearer for which he had requested CNE an extension of three days to “remedy the factual and legal violations that have occurred in the process.”

During Monday -last day of registration-, The coalition stated that it had exhausted all avenues to be able to register Yoris on which there is no disqualification or administrative sanction.

Until this Tuesday, Machado winner of the October 22 primaries, He maintained that his candidate was the historian.

Edmundo González Urrutia is an international analyst, diplomat and former ambassador of Venezuela to Argentina and Algeria..

According to the CNE, with González Urrutia, there are 13 candidates registered for the elections joining Manuel Rosales, Luis Brito, Luis Ratti, Enrique Márquez, Benjamín Rausseo, Luis Eduardo Martínez, Daniel Ceballos, Antonio Ecarri, Juan Carlos Alvarado, Javier Bertucci, Claudio Fermín and the current head of state, Nicolás Maduro.

Likewise, the president of the electoral body, Elvis Amoroso indicated that a total of 37 political parties – some in coalition – nominated their candidates during the five days that this process lasted, without “any type of restriction,” according to the rector, despite repeated complaints from the main opposition group.

González Urrutia may be replaced starting next Monday provided that there is no administrative sanction or impediment contemplated by law, and the CNE admits the candidacy that replaces it.

The formula of nominating a provisional candidate is common in Venezuela and aims to ‘guarantee’ a spot on the ballot.