By EFE
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado believes that elections in Venezuela should occur in the next 12 months “at most,” as he said this Monday in his participation in the World 2026 Conference held by the Milken Institute in Los Angeles, California.
Machado, Nobel Peace Prize 2025, was one of the first to participate in the economic meeting held in Beverly Hills, where she reiterated the need to accelerate the elections in her country, although always following the opinion of the Administration of the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
“The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has presented a three-phase process. The final result is an electoral process that will relegitimize the president, the National Assembly and other authorities (of Venezuela). “We believe this should take place in the next 12 months, at most,” said the opponent.
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Since the capture of Nicolás Maduro in the US operation in Venezuela on January 3, the White House has established relations with the Government of Chavista Delcy Rodríguez and has allowed the country to open to investment.
The White House has kept the opposition in the background that Machado embodies in the transition facing the South American country, and the mentions have been almost limited to the Nobel Prize.
Last week, President Trump said that when the Venezuelan opponent gave him the Nobel Peace Prize, he told her that she “didn’t deserve it.”
Machado today avoided answering directly on the topic and focused his talk on explaining the objectives of the opposition, which focus on “obtain an electoral calendar with a defined date for the elections.”
The opposition leader has been outside Venezuela since last December, when she left to receive the Nobel Peace Prize medal in Norway after spending a year in hiding to avoid being arrested by the authorities, who have accused her of being violent and calling for a military invasion.
This Monday, Machado He reiterated that he plans to return to his country, although he acknowledged that he fears for his life.
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