Venezuela opposition presidential candidate Yoris says her age is no handicap

26/3/2024 7:18

        Venezuela's 80-year-old aspiring opposition presidential candidate, Corina Yoris, on Monday said her age would be no handicap as she sets her sights on July's election against incumbent President Nicolas Maduro.
        
        Yoris was named as the opposition candidate on Friday by Maria Corina Machado, who won the opposition nominating contest by a landslide last year but has been banned from holding public office.
        
        Unlike in the United States, where the ages of the two presidential candidates - at 81 and 77 - have dominated the campaign, little has been said in Venezuela about Yoris' age.
        
        But were she to triumph to July, she would be 86 by the time her term ended and likely one of the oldest world leaders.
        
        Yoris, a respected academic, told Reuters in an interview that she was not as physically agile as she once was but that her "mind is very clear."