Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles to run in October primary

Record ID: 1714805

  • Title: Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles to run in October primary
  • Date: 10th March 2023
  • Summary: CARACAS, VENEZUELA (MARCH 10, 2023) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF OPPOSITION LEADER, HENRIQUE CAPRILES, GREETING PEOPLE AT AN EVENT TO ANNOUNCE HE IS RUNNING AS PRIMERO JUSTICIA'S PARTY CANDIDATE FOR PRIMARY ELECTIONS VARIOUS OF PEOPLE APPLAUDING AT EVENT CAPRILES AND OTHER POLITICIANS OF PRIMERO JUSTICIA PARTY SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF VENEZUELA RALLY IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE)
  • Embargoed: 24th March 2023 21:54
  • Keywords: Henrique Capriles Nicolas Maduro Primero Justicia Venezuela elections opposition
  • Location: CARACAS, VENEZUELA
  • City: CARACAS, VENEZUELA
  • Country: Venezuela
  • Topics: South America / Central America,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA001650310032023RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Venezuelan Henrique Capriles was nominated on Friday (March 10) as Primero Justicia’s (Justice First) opposition party candidate for an October presidential primary.
    The two times presidential hopeful launched his bid for the Oct. 22 primary in a public event in Caracas despite being barred by judicial and administrative rulings from holding public office.
    The 50-year-old told his supporters that the opposition forces will overturn Venezuela’s government in 2024, calling on all Venezuelans to get together to face the presidential race.
    At least a dozen candidates have expressed their desire to participate in the primary, including the former head of the interim government, Juan Guaido, also barred from holding public posts.
    The government has said those who are barred cannot run until their bans expire, but the opposition says the decisions are part of a government strategy to tamp down dissent.
    The October primary will come amid widespread voter apathy and uncertainty about whether the millions of Venezuelans who have migrated abroad will be able to vote.
    In 2017, Capriles was banned from holding political office for 15 years in what he described as "a desperate gambit of a decaying dictatorship."
    (Production: Johnny Carvajal, Efrain Otero, Gloria Lopez, Anna Portella)
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