Former Venezuelan Supreme Court Justice Says She Was Coerced Into Barring Machado
- Former Venezuelan Supreme Court Justice Barbara Cesar Siero told AFP that government threats forced her to sign an order barring opposition leader Maria Corina Machado from elections.
- Authorities arrested relatives of Cesar, including military personnel, to pressure her; one of her brothers remains detained.
- Machado won an opposition primary in 2023, but the ban prevented her from becoming the opposition candidate in the 2024 election.
- Machado’s Vente party demanded that her ineligibility be lifted immediately and called for an urgent investigation into the alleged coercion.
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After the revelations about the illegality of the procedure of ineligibility aimed at her, the Nobel Peace Prize winner 2025 denounces the chavism which prevented her from running for the presidential election of 2024.
Former Venezuelan judge says threats forced her to sign Machado election ban
Maria Corina Machado won an opposition primary in 2023, but the ban prevented her from formally being named as a candidate. (AFP pic) CARACAS: A former Venezuelan judge told AFP on Thursday that she signed off on banning opposition leader Maria Corina Machado from elections due to government threats, a revelation that has renewed demands to overturn the ban.Barbara Cesar Siero, a Supreme Court justice from December 2014 to February 2024, said th…
Barbara Cesar Siero, former magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice, claims that several of her relatives were arrested to force her to sign a document declaring the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 ineligible, before the presidential election of 2024.
A former judge of the Supreme Court of Venezuela stated on Thursday that she had been forced to sign the document declaring the opponent Maria Corina Machado ineligible in the presidential election of 2024. The party of the latter demanded an urgent investigation and the "immediate" lifting of her ineligibility.
"What my family and my sister-in-law have lived through shows conclusively how the regime used arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and cruel and inhuman treatment against my brothers and sister-in-law as a ruinous tool of coercion and political blackmail."
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