Caracas.- A total of 1,326 national and international press professionals have been accredited by Venezuela to cover the presidential elections on Sunday, July 28.

This large group of journalists includes 164 special envoys from 76 international media outlets, among them major agencies such as AP, AFP, EFE, Bloomberg, and Thomson Reuters.

Also from Kyodo News, Yomiuri Shimbun, Mainichi Newspaper (Japan), ARD Broadcasting (Germany), BBC News, BBC World, and newspapers like The Guardian and Financial Times (United Kingdom), RTVE (Spain), Liberation, Le Monde, and France 24 (France), as well as Al Jazeera English (Qatar), The Washington Post, New York Times, and CBS News (USA).

Along with photographers, cameramen, and technical staff from foreign press outlets, they began arriving in the country since last Wednesday to complete the accreditation process with the National Electoral Council, in addition to the 106 professionals from 31 media organizations with correspondents in Venezuela.

Additionally, 1,056 communication workers from 33 national public and private media outlets have been accredited, bringing the total to 140 media organizations that will cover the elections and all electoral events during next Sunday.

Part of this extensive journalistic team comes from Germany, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, China, Colombia, Dominica, the USA, Spain, France, Japan, Lebanon, Paraguay, Qatar, the United Kingdom, Russia, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Switzerland, and Uruguay.

Next Sunday, Venezuela will hold presidential elections for the 2025-2031 constitutional period, in which 10 presidential candidates are competing; 9 of these belong to opposition parties and one is the candidate of the Bolivarian revolution, Nicolás Maduro.

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