⁍ Henrique Capriles and legislator Stalin Gonzalez have been quietly leading an effort to field opposition candidates.
⁍ News signals a major rift within the opposition, which last year coalesced around the figure of congress chief Juano.
– Venezuela’s opposition has agreed to field candidates in December’s legislative elections despite plans to boycott the vote, Reuters reports. Two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles and legislator Stalin Gonzalez are in talks with President Nicolas Maduro’s government to field opposition candidates despite fears that the vote will be tilted in favor of the ruling Socialist Party. Turkey’s foreign minister says Maduro has agreed to the presence of outside observers. “We see that the administration and the opposition are close to a deal, and we are happy about this,” he says. “The attendance of outside observers is one of the conditions, and these conditions have been accepted by the Maduro administration.” Maduro’s government, however, says Capriles and Gonzalez “did not meet in representation of the democratic factors, nor in name of the National Assembly, nor the interim government.”
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuela-opposition-leaders-in-talks-to-join-parliament-vote-turkey-official-says-idUSKBN25S6F9