Former MP Maria Corina Machado won the opposition primaries this Sunday in VenezuelaWith 93.13% votesAt the same time, 26.06% of the voting records were carefully studied in which Venezuelans chose who should appear before chavismo in the 2024 presidential elections.

National Primary Commission (CNP), which organized ianti-Chavista gutsoffered the first balance with preliminary results in the first hour of this Monday, after several hours of initial counting and summing.

According to these first data, from 601,110 votes countedMachado remained with 552,430, a far cry from his closest rival, former MP Carlos Prosperi, who received 28,153 support, representing 4.75% of the count.

As for the remaining candidates, former deputy Delsa Solórzano received 0.77% of the votes, former director of the electoral commission Andres Caleca – 0.57%, former governor Cesar Pérez Vivas – 0.28%, former governor Andres Velázquez – 0.18%, agricultural producer Luis Farias – 0.11%, lawyer Gloria Pinho – 0.09%, former deputy Tamara Adrian – 0.07% and businessman Cesar Almeida – 0.05%.

The organizers of these votes have not announced overall participation figures or estimates in this regard, although independent estimates claim that Almost two million Venezuelans went to the polls today.

However, Machado herself assured this Sunday afternoon that Three million ballots printed for the election were used up..

The release of the first ballot was delayed due to a server failure, a situation that arose immediately after the start of the transmission of results, condemned by CNP President Jesus Maria Casal.

The country’s 3,010 polling centers began closing at the scheduled time of 4:00 pm local time (20:00 GMT), although many of these centers remained open three hours longer due to voter turnout.

Last July, the Accounts Chamber reported that suspension imposed on Machado in 2015which then lasted one year, will last until 2030, so the former MP will not be able to hold elected office unless the sanctions are lifted.