Of the nearly five million Venezuelans eligible to vote abroad, only 1% will be able to cast their ballots this Sunday due to numerous obstacles imposed by the Venezuelan authorities.
The latest electoral register only includes 69,000 people eligible to vote outside Venezuela in the presidential elections, where Nicolás Maduro is seeking his second re-election against opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia. Critics attribute this low number to a deliberate government strategy to prevent emigrants from having a decisive impact on an election outcome that many predict could go the opposition's way.
