President of Colombia Gustavo Petro, called the disqualification of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado “anti-democratic coup” and stressed that similar obstacles were repeated in other countries in the region.

“The right to choose is not only individual. This belongs to society, and today this is a debate that is very clearly evident in the events in Venezuela, where Ms. Maria Corina and others were previously disqualified by administrative authorities from participating in election campaigns,” he criticized.

Peter also recalled that other Venezuelan opposition figures such as Leopoldo Lopez were also disqualified. exactly the same as they tried to do with him in Colombia. “It’s exactly the same thing that they wanted to disqualify me here,” he said, according to the Colombian newspaper. Viewer.

These statements by Peter criticism rises another tone to Venezuela’s election authorities’ decision to block some opposition candidates in the July 28 presidential election after the Colombian government initially expressed “concerns” about the developments.

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Another of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s allies, his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, A few days ago, he said that “there is no legal or political explanation that prohibits an opponent from being a candidate,” referring in this case to Corina Joris, the replacement of the disqualified Maria Corina Machado.

(Europe Press)