With the votes of the EPP, ECR and the two far-right political groups of the „Patriots“ (PfE) and „Sovereignists“ (ESN), the committee of political group leaders has decided that the Venezuelan opposition will receive this year’s Sakharov Prize. The winners are María Corina Machado, the leader of the Democratic Rally, and Eduardo González Urrutia, who won the presidential election but whose victory is not recognized by the regime in Caracas.