Venezuela’s Comptroller General has confirmed that oppositionist Maria Corina Machado, registered to run in the October primaries ahead of the 2024 presidential election, is barred from running for a popularly elected office for a total of 15 years, MP José said this Friday. Brito.
According to a document provided by Brito’s press office, the Comptroller’s Office indicated that Machado was disqualified from holding elective office following a generic investigation that violated “public ethics, administrative morality, the rule of law, peace and sovereignty” of Venezuela.
“Similarly, it has been found that the existence of managed funds justifies that they represented an interest close to 50% of managed funds in the period under review, consisting of deposits and credit notes of unknown origin in national banks (…) and deposits. transactions and credit notes of unknown origin in foreign currency,” he added.
The Accounts Chamber indicated that Machado was part of a “corruption conspiracy” orchestrated by former opposition MP Juan Guaidó that resulted in a “criminal blockade” of Venezuela as well as a “flagrant alienation” of national companies and wealth. abroad with the “complicity of corrupt governments”.
“The blockade requested by Maria Corina Machado in collusion with the usurper Juan Guaido, among others, resulted in the theft of $4 billion held in the international banking system,” he said.
In addition, he said that anti-Chavista supporters demanded sanctions and an “economic blockade” against the Caribbean nation, which caused “damage to the health of the Venezuelan people.”
The Comptroller General did not specify at what point this political disqualification began, since in 2015 the institution applied this measure for one year, alleging that Machado did not include “concepts” of a labor nature in his affidavits about the property, which prevented her at that time from running for parliament.
Venezuelan opposition member Maria Corina Machado called “useless” the 15-year political disqualification weighing on her, unveiled this Friday by MP José Brito, who asked the controller for information about the status of the anti-Chavista party. , who submitted his candidacy in the October primaries.
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“A useless disqualification that only shows that the regime knows it has already been defeated. Now we will vote with more force, more riot and more desire in the primaries. Here, who allows it is the people of Venezuela. Until there is an end,” Machado tweeted after the information was made public.
According to a document from the General Audit Office released by Brito, Machado is disqualified from holding elective office following a probate investigation, during which the institute assured that errors and omissions were found in the probate affidavits assessed during the due diligence.
It was also found, the letter continues, that “the existence of the funds that could be substantiated was a percentage close to 50% of the funds managed during the period under evaluation, consisting of deposits and credit notes of unknown origin in national banks (…) and operations with deposits and credit notes of unknown origin in foreign currency”.
In addition, he pointed out that the opposition was involved in a “corruption conspiracy” organized by former opposition MP Juan Guaidó, which led to a “criminal blockade” of Venezuela, as well as to the “blatant alienation” of national companies and wealth abroad, with the “complicity of corrupt governments.”

“The blockade requested by Maria Corina Machado in collusion with the usurper Juan Guaido, among others, resulted in the theft of $4 billion held in the international banking system,” he said.
The Comptroller General did not specify when this political disqualification began, as in 2015 the institution applied the measure for one year, alleging that Machado did not include “concepts” of an employment nature in his asset affidavits, which prevented her at that time from running for parliamentary office.
The Venezuelan opposition, grouped in the Unititarian Platform, has rejected a 15-year political ban against anti-chavista María Corina Machado announced this Friday by MP José Brito after asking the Comptroller for information about the status of a former MP who ran in the October primaries.
“Unanimously, we reject the unconstitutional disqualification of Maria Corina Machado, which is a clear violation of the political rights of Venezuelans,” the coalition said in a Twitter post.
The Unitary Platform reaffirmed its commitment to “building unity together with the people of Venezuela through the October 22 elections.”