Just as she was announced as the favorite to win the upcoming parliamentary elections, the Comptroller General of Venezuela barred opposition leader and former deputy, Maria Corina Machado, from assuming any public office position for a year.

“[The government is] acting like the dictators that they are, but [should] get ready, because we will act like the majority that we are,” Machado wrote on her Twitter account. She also published her sanction letter that read that the decision was made based on the anti-corruption law but included no other details.