(23 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Caracas, Venezuela - 23 May 2024
1. Man holding flag reading: "Edmundo president"
2. Various of opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez arriving to event at opposition party "Voluntad Popular (Popular will)" headquarters
3. Gonzalez greeting Corina Yoris, who was briefly appointed as presidential candidate before Gonzalez to substitute opposition banned leader Maria Corina Machado
4. Crowd cheering UPSOUND (Spanish) "Edmundo for president!"
5. Gonzalez receiving a crown given to him by a Voluntad Popular delegate on Amazon state on behalf Indigenous peoples
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Edmundo Gonzalez, opposition presidential candidate:
"We must win the election through three fundamental keys: a high turnout, international support and lots and lots of organization. In every voting center and at every voting table, the will for change that this country is demanding must be defended."
7. People listening to opposition event
8. Message painted on window reading: "28 of July: with strength and faith in the one of the little hand (referring to the opposition main coalition logo resembling a hand doing a thumb up)
9. Voluntad Popular leader Leopoldo Lopez, speaking from Spain via video call
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Leopoldo López, founder of Voluntad Popular:
"The dictatorship may still continue to try to cheat, play dirty and try to prevent the elections from taking place with any of the scenarios. There are those who speak of a conflict with Guyana, there are those who speak that they will disqualify him (Edmundo Gonzalez), there are those who speak that they will suspend the election. All are hypotheses. But what is real, what we know, what is concrete, where we are standing today is that on July 28 there will be an election and you Edmundo Gonzalez will be elected president and you will have the responsibility to move forward in a transition."
11. People listening to event, standing in front of poster of Edmundo Gonzalez stands in the background
12. Gonzalez smiling
13. Woman chanting: "Edmundo for president!"
STORYLINE:
From the headquarters of the Venezuelan opposition party Voluntad Popular (Popular Will), presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez on Thursday called for organization and big turnout to win the presidential elections.
"We must win the election through three fundamental keys: a high turnout, international support and lots and lots of organization," said Gonzalez to an excited crowd.
The founding leader of Voluntad Popular party, Leopoldo Lopez, spoke to the crowd through a video call.
"The dictatorship may still continue to try to cheat, play dirty and try to prevent the elections from taking place," said Lopez, who spent years in jail in Venezuela and now lives exiled in Spain.
"Where we are standing today is that on July 28 there will be an election and you Edmundo Gonzalez will be elected president".
The opposition aims to win the election and oust president Nicolás Maduro who is seeking to extend his presidency for six more years.
Succeeding Hugo Chávez, Maduro has been elected president of Venezuela for two consecutive terms since 2013.
AP Video shot by Juan Arraez
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