Venezuela closes its presidential campaign with everything said but nothing decided
Venezuela closes This Thursday the election campaign, after 21 days, with calls to massive demonstrations of support to the main candidates – the official Nicolas Maduro and the Opponent Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia—, whose teams agree that, at this point, everything has been said, but, in reality, nothing is decided, ahead of Sunday’s presidential elections.
Maduro, in power since 2013, will make his closing in Caracas, where it is foreseen occupy several avenues with supporters who will travel from different parts of the country, while González distance, standard-bearer of the majority opposition, will lead an event in an area of the east from the capital together with the anti-Chavez leader María Corina Machado.
He Chavismo intends to take over the entire city for 12 hours, According to the campaign command, while the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – the main opposition bloc – has called on his supporters to rally scheduled for 16:00 local time (20:00 GMT).
Maduro will give his last speech after numerous rallies in the country’s 23 states which were transmitted entirely through the Venezuelan state television channel, who dedicated the entire campaign to promote the candidacy of the president, leaving only exceptionally brief spaces for the dissemination of proposals from the other nine contenders.
Meanwhile, the PUD candidate She arrives at this day recharged with her penultimate activity, which took place in the state of Zulia (west, bordering Colombia), where on Tuesday gathered a crowd of followers who waited for him for hours along several streets, which he crossed in a caravan with Machado.
