21N: Opposition Looking to Form Alliances with Former Chavistas (APR’s Uzcátegui) – Extreme Left and Right in Talks

Since the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced the November 21 elections, the lack of unity among the opposition parties has spilled into the open, although the opposition’s own spokespersons have admitted unity to be necessary to recover political spaces through elections.

Multiple oppositions
Although the right-wing factions have presented a multiplicity of candidacies in almost all regions and jurisdictions of the country, they have also been joined by the nominations of candidates who had, at some point, belonged to Chavismo but who are now part of the opposition ranks.

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This is the case of Antonia Muñóz, who has been nominated for the governorship of the state of Portuguesa, with the support of the Alternativa Popular Revolucionaria (APR) party—a breakaway group from PSUV, Unidad Política Popular (UPP89) and the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV). In recent years, Muñoz has harshly criticized President Nicolás Maduro on multiple occasions.

Ecarri, the son of Juan Guaidó’s representative in Spain, received the approval of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), in which various right-wing parties are grouped, for the mayorship of Caracas. However, this approval could not deter the aspirations of other candidates.

Thus, the recent meeting between Ecarri, Uzcátegui and Muñóz seems like a new plot twist in the Caracas mayorship election. However, Chavismo has maintained a dominance over the preference of the Caracas electorate for the past 20 years and represents a tough challenge for any opponent of Chavismo.