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María Corina Machado: «Venezuelans would not accept a choice where I am not allowed to be a candidate»

María Corina Machado, in an interview with SPIEGEL, stated that Venezuelans would not accept an election where she is barred from candidacy, referencing the 2024 scenario.

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linked by topic terms: machado, maria corina machado, opposition

What would settle it: Opposition figures campaigning or returning without arrest, confirmed independently.

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Machado says Venezuelans would not accept an election where she is not allowed to be a candidate.

She hopes the negotiations produce a roadmap for presidential elections with an independent CNE.

She has low expectations due to past dialogues where Jorge Rodríguez always got what he wanted.

She acknowledges the possibility of elections being called without her participation.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-08-23 — not reviewed by a human editor. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.