
Venezuelan opposition politicians (left to right) Henrique Capriles, Juan GuaidĂł, and MarĂa Corina Machado. Photo composition by Orinoco Tribune.

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Venezuelan opposition politicians (left to right) Henrique Capriles, Juan GuaidĂł, and MarĂa Corina Machado. Photo composition by Orinoco Tribune.
The latest Monitor PaĂs poll conducted by the survey firm Hinterlaces in June 2022 revealed that most of the Venezuelan opposition leaders with a presence on the national scene are rejected by 63% to 85% of the population.
The rejection list is headed by Juan GuaidĂł, with 85% unpopularity. He is closely followed by Julio Borges and Leopoldo LĂłpez, both receiving unfavorable opinion from 83 % of those consulted by the poll.
ÂżQuiĂ©nes son los dirigentes de oposiciĂłn MĂS IMPOPULARES ? #MonitorPais Hinterlaces (Junio 2022) pic.twitter.com/tPr3ovhNS7
— Hinterlaces (@Hinterlaces) July 15, 2022
Similarly, 82% of those interviewed expressed an unfavorable opinion of Henrique Capriles Radonski and Henry Ramos Allup.
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Other opposition leaders who got unfavorable rankings are the current governor of the state of Zulia, Manuel Rosales (62 %), and ultra-right politician MarĂa Corina Machado (63%).
Emerging opposition figures such as Antonio Ecarri and Gustavo Duque received much lower percentages of unfavorable opinionsâ29% and 24%, respectively. However, the majority of the participants of the survey said that they did not know them (58%) or did not express an opinion about them (62%).
Businessman Lorenzo Mendoza turned out to be the opposition figure receiving the most favorable public opinion, with 50% of positive opinions and 32% rejection, although 18% did not express any opinion about him or said that they did not know him.
An interesting datum derived from this poll is that between 7% and 11% of those surveyed indicated that they did not know how to value opposition figures of national and international projection such as GuaidĂł, Borges, LĂłpez, Ramos, Rosales, and Machado.
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Âż A quien elegirĂa usted como Candidato Presidencial ? #MonitorPais Hinterlaces (Junio 2022) pic.twitter.com/QzCo7Yv6oy
— Hinterlaces (@Hinterlaces) July 15, 2022
On asked for whom they would vote as presidential candidate, 13% of the survey participants responded that they would select Mendoza, which turned out to be the highest percentage for any opposition figure. He is followed by Manuel Rosales (7%) and MarĂa Corina Machado (5%), while the most well-known opposition faces like GuaidĂł, Capriles, Leopoldo LĂłpez, and Ramos Allup received between 1% and 2% of support. 61% responded that they would not vote for any of the candidates named in the survey, or refused to answer the question.
Hinterlaces specified that for this survey 1,200 interviews were conducted throughout Venezuela. The selection method used a stratified sampling by gender, age, region, socioeconomic level, and educational level. In addition, the sample was stratified by socio-economic values.
(LaIguana.TV) with Orinoco Tribune content
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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