The Venezuelan opposition coalesced last week around Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, a little known former ambassador who became its sole candidate tasked with taking on President Nicolás Maduro's ironclad grip on power.
He rose to the spot after the opposition's main candidate, Maria Corina Machado, was banned from running, and her stand-in replacement, Corina Yoris, was prevented from doing so as well.
