A total of 1,326 national and international press professionals were accredited by Venezuela to cover the presidential elections on Sunday, July 28.
This large group of journalists brings together 164 special envoys from 76 international media, including the world’s main agencies: AP, AFP, EFE, Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters.
Also from Kyodo news, Yomiuri Shimbun, Mainichi Newspaper (Japan), ARD Radio-television (Germany), BBC news, BBC world and The Guardian newspaper, Financial Times (United Kingdom), RTVE (Spain), Liberation, Le Monde, and France 24 (France), Al Jazeera English (Qatar), The Washington Post, New York Times, CBS News (USA).
Together with photographers, cameramen and technical personnel from the foreign press, they began to arrive in the country last Wednesday to comply with the accreditation process before the National Electoral Council, in addition to the 106 professionals belonging to the 31 media outlets with correspondents in Venezuela.
Likewise, 1,056 communication workers who work in 33 public and private national media were accredited, for a total of 140 media that will cover the elections and all electoral events during next Sunday.
Part of this profuse journalistic team is from Germany, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, China, Colombia, Dominica, USA, Spain, France, Japan, Lebanon, Paraguay, Qatar, United Kingdom, Russia, Santa Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Switzerland and Uruguay.
Next Sunday will be held in Venezuela the presidential elections for the 2025-2031 constitutional period, elections in which 10 presidential candidates compete, of which 9 belong to the opposition and one is the candidate of the Bolivarian revolution, Nicolás Maduro.
