2023 Unitary Platform presidential primaries

The 2023 Unitary Platform presidential primaries were primary elections held on 22 October 2023, to choose the opposition candidate of the Unitary Platform coalition in the elections of the following year for the presidency of Venezuela. The first official announcement of the primaries was made on 16 May 2022 by the coalition, setting 2023 as the year in which such elections would be held. They were held in Venezuela, as well as in 29 countries and 77 cities abroad.

2023 Unitary Platform presidential primaries
22 October 2023
 
Nominee María Corina Machado Carlos Prosperi
Party Vente Venezuela Democratic Action
Popular vote 2,253,825 112,532
Percentage 92.35% 4.61%
Previous Unitary Platform nominee

Henrique Capriles
PJ

 Unitary Platform nominee

María Corina Machado
Vente Venezuela

The primaries were independently organized by the National Primary Commission, without the assistance of the National Electoral Council and with the use of manual voting. Venezuelan NGOs and political parties have denounced the use of disinformation, death threats, and physical attacks by Chavismo supporters and by the National Liberation Army (ELN), a far-left Colombian guerrilla group, against opposition candidates.

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