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“In Europe, Corina Machado sought these alliances mainly in far-right networks, such as, for example, in the Vox party, in Spain. The European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for her and the presidential candidate Edmundo González, in 2024, was demanded and imposed largely by the center-right parliamentary group”, explains Dargatz. “But Machado’s strategy was never to consolidate the opposition alliance within Venezuela. She did not cultivate this alliance and now each party acts on its own,” he says.
