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Montevideo, November 5th 2024 - 11:40 UTC

Tag: Democratic Unity

  • Friday, February 23rd 2018 - 00:12 UTC

    Venezuelan opposition to Boycott: won't contest on presidential elections

    “Do not count on the Unit or the Venezuelan people to endorse what until now is only a fraudulent and illegitimate simulation of the presidential election.”

    The Venezuelan democratic opposition, represented by the Democratic Unity, announced that it will not be presented to the elections convened by the government of Nicolás Maduro for next April 22 and calls for a national boycott as it is considered a fraudulent process and without guarantees.

  • Monday, January 29th 2018 - 18:29 UTC

    “Electoral charade”: Maduro clings to power at all costs

    The Supreme Court of Justice issued a judgment ordering the exclusion of the opposition coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD) from the electoral process

    On December 20 the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) - formed only by pro-government officials - decreed that political parties that did not participate for the last regional election a few months ago must be revalidated before the National Electoral Council (CNE), a rule that according to the the current constitution should be should be applied when absenting more than 3 times to the suffrages.