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Venezuela’s opposition alliance has nominated a new presidential candidate, hoping to prevent its impending exclusion from the election in four months’ time. Edmundo González Urrutia has now been registered as a “provisional” replacement for the actual candidate Corina Yoris, who could not be registered by the deadline, the opposition alliance Unidad Venezuela said on Tuesday on social media platform X, formerly Twitter. The diplomat, who was Venezuelan ambassador to Argentina and Algeria, had been registered on the electoral list “to preserve the exercise of political rights corresponding to …