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#Venezuela: Private Presidential Primary vs the Dictator. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ

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🗓️ 23 September 2023

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#Venezuela: Private Presidential Primary vs the Dictator. Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ

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This is CBSI in the world, I'm John Bachelors. Then as well,

0:22.3

a failed state, a rogue state associated with

0:25.8

malign actors around the world, gangsters, and major powers, nuclear arm powers,

0:32.5

except a moment in time for Venezuela to write the ship. Mary Anastasia Grady, the America's

0:40.0

Editor and Columnist for the Wall Street Journal editorial board, points us to October 22nd,

0:45.4

this year, and at what looks to be a private primary that is nationally

0:51.6

extremely popular for a replacement for the dictator Maduro. Mary, I'm very good even to you.

1:00.2

I say it's a private primary because clearly it doesn't have the blessing of the dictator.

1:05.6

However, it is extremely exciting to go forward with this method. How is it that it's going

1:11.7

to be run? What happens on October 22nd? Good evening to you.

1:15.3

Well, good evening, John. Yeah, the opposition in Venezuela has gotten together

1:20.4

and figured out how to run a private primary or so they say. So this will not involve

1:27.9

the National Electoral Council, which is Maduro's electoral body. People are able,

1:34.6

including the diaspora, are able to register online and they will go and vote on that day.

1:41.9

Now, Maria Corina Machado, who's one of the candidates told me that one of the reasons why

1:50.1

they're doing this, the main reason they're doing this is that they are basically trying to ensure

1:56.4

that Maduro does not choose who he gets to run against because he will go with an opposition that

2:03.6

is not seen well by the public and probably he'll also finagle the vote. But she wants to take

2:12.6

the pulse of the Venezuelan people and find out who it recognizes as its leadership. And

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