Venezuela presidential candidates hold final rallies ahead of election

After years of election boycotts and internal divisions, the main opposition parties have come together to support a single candidate, former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia.

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been the star of the coalition campaign, even after a ban on holding public office forced her to pass the torch to candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, a 74-year-old ex-diplomat known for his calm demeanor.

MILLIONS of Venezuelans are expected to choose to eject President Nicolas Maduro from power as the country faces presidential elections today.

Tomorrow Venezuela is scheduled to be voting in elections which could make the second quarter-century of this millennium a very different story to the first.