This Sunday, Venezuelans are choosing between re-electing President Nicolás Maduro or voting against the heir to Chavismo, who is trailing in the polls behind the opposition led by diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia of the Unitarian Table of Democrats.
In the context of an economic and social crisis, the election campaign was an all-or-nothing affair, with Maduro threatening a “bloodbath” and civil war if he did not win a third six-year term and the opposition promising to fight “to the end.”
The choice of some 21 million of Venezuela’s 30 million people will be split between 10 candidates, but the outcome is to be decided between Maduro of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, who replaced former leader Hugo Chavez, and retired diplomat Urrutia, who replaced candidate Maria Corina Machado, who was barred from running by the regime.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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