Venezuela opposition leader says Yoris remains coalition candidate despite struggle to register
Corina Yoris remains the major opposition coalition’s presidential candidate in Venezuela’s July elections, opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said, even though she was not able to register for the contest.
CARACAS — Corina Yoris remains the major opposition coalition’s presidential candidate in Venezuela’s July elections, opposition leader and former hopeful Maria Corina Machado said on Tuesday, even though Yoris was not able to register for the contest.
The coalition was left without a candidate in the race after the opposition was unable to access the electoral authority’s online system to register 80-year-old Yoris before the expiry of Monday’s deadline.
Yoris was named as the opposition candidate last week by Machado, who won the opposition nominating contest by a landslide last year to run against incumbent President Nicolas Maduro, but has been banned from holding public office.
“Our candidate is Corina Yoris,” Machado told journalists on Tuesday morning.
Asked if she would consider an alliance with Manuel Rosales, the current governor of Zulia province, who registered just before the expiry of a Monday deadline, Machado said she is taking decisions “day by day.”
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