Venezuela will hold the presidential elections on July 28 of this year, the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced this Tuesday, which also provided the most notable dates of the schedule that will run until the elections.
According to the president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso, the schedule, which contemplates all the legal and technical constitutional requirements to hold the 2024 presidential elections, states that the presentations of the candidates will be from March 21 to 25.
He also explained that the electoral campaign, which will last 21 days, will take place between July 4 and 25.
The calendar also states that there will be a special period for voter registration, both national and international, which will run from March 18 to April 16.
The chosen date was the one that received the greatest support from political organizations during the consultation process promoted by the National Assembly (Parliament), controlled by Chavismo, among them from the Somos Venezuela Movement, the closest ally of the ruling PSUV party.
In this way, Venezuela respects the agreement between the Government and the main opposition coalition last October, when they agreed, in Barbados, that the elections would be held in the second half of the year.
The ruling party assures that the president, Nicolás Maduro, will seek a third term, although the president has not confirmed his candidacy, while, on the part of the opposition, the one chosen by the majority in the October primaries, María Corina Machado, remains disqualified. to hold elected positions and, therefore, to run for president.
