Exiled Venezuelan Leader Pushes for Primaries to Confront Maduro
- From U.S., Lopez calls for opposition unity on 2024 election
- Participation in 2024 vote hinges on conditions, Lopez says
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Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez said the country should hold primaries to select a candidate to rival Nicolas Maduro in the 2024 presidential elections before the end of the year.
In front of a packed auditorium at his alma mater, Harvard University, on Monday evening, Lopez called the vote “the one path forward that can mobilize the Venezuelan people,” signaling a shift in position for a bloc of the opposition that has boycotted elections for years.