Ex-lawmaker Maria Corina Machado, a favorite to win the Venezuelan opposition’s nomination for president in an October primary, is barred from holding public office for 15 years, the controller general said in a letter to a lawmaker.
Machado, a 55-year-old industrial engineer, is leading polling for the 13-candidate primary, convened to select a unity candidate to face President Nicolas Maduro in a 2024 election. A previous ban placed on her has been extended because Machado supported sanctions by the United States on the Maduro government and backed former opposition leader Juan Guaido, the letter said.
“The citizen Maria Corina Machado Parisca … is inhabilitated from the exercise of any public office for the period of 15 years,” the controller said in its response, dated June 27 and shared by Brito on Friday.
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