{"id":50143,"date":"2024-03-30T17:21:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T07:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50143"},"modified":"2024-03-30T17:21:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T07:21:40","slug":"venezuelas-machado-urges-international-pressure-over-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50143","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela&#8217;s Machado urges international pressure over elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Friday urged the international community to heap more pressure on President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s government to allow her coalition&#8217;s chosen candidate to take part in July elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old politician thanked countries like Colombia and Brazil &#8212; traditional allies of Caracas &#8212; which joined the United States and France in expressing their alarm over the exclusion of candidate Corina Yoris.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They reaffirm that our struggle is fair and democratic,&#8221; Machado wrote on X, formerly Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I call on the democratic leaders of the world to join the efforts of presidents and governments in demanding that the Maduro regime allow the registration of Corina Yoris as a candidate in the presidential elections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Machado&#8217;s Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) was earlier this week forced to register an unknown candidate after being unable to sign up Yoris, 80, to face off against Maduro, who is seeking a third term in office.<br \/>\nYoris was already the embattled opposition&#8217;s Plan B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Friday urged the international community to heap more pressure on President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s government to allow her coalition&#8217;s chosen candidate to take part in July elections. The 56-year-old politician thanked countries like Colombia and Brazil &#8212; traditional allies of Caracas &#8212; which joined the United States and France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[972],"class_list":["post-50143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-venezuelas-machado-urges-international-pressure-over-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}