The governments of Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay expressed this Monday his “grave concern” in the face of “constant obstacles” to the registration of Venezuelan presidential candidates with the National Electoral Council.

This is stated in a statement, which emphasizes that the said situation and previous disqualifications add: “questions about the integrity and transparency of the electoral process as a whole“.

“At the moment, most Venezuelan opposition parties —MUD and UNT— were unable to register their candidate, Corina Joris to represent them in the next presidential elections. This situation, together with previous disqualifications that were in the public domain, adds questions to the integrity and transparency of the electoral process as a whole,” the text emphasizes.

Likewise, he argues that these restrictions are “impeding progress towards elections that will allow for the process of democratization” in Venezuela.

Accordingly, the governments of these seven countries called for a “review” of the situation so that, at the end of the registration period, “citizens who meet the requirements enshrined in the Venezuelan Constitution can be properly registered so that the brother Venezuelan people can freely choose their next government.”

The Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), the main opposition alliance in Venezuela, assured this Monday that it has exhausted all possibilities to register the candidacy of the historian Corina Joris for the elections. presidential elections July 28, something he says was prevented.

“We have exhausted all means at our disposal to solve this problem,” said Joris, who was chosen as the PUD presidential candidate last Friday at a press conference due to a disqualification that prevents former legislator Maria Corina Machado, the winner primaries last October, fighting for public positions in these and other elections until 2036.