[21] On 25 February, the official National Assembly elected in December approved in the first discussion the "Repeal Law of the Law of Regularization of the Constitutional and Legal Periods of the State and Municipal Public Powers", which would allow the CNE to organize elections of governors, mayors, state legislative councils and municipal councils jointly.

The pro-government deputy Ricardo Sánchez assured that the repealing law was the result of "long conversations" and negotiations between political forces.

[21] On 6 September, during a campaign rally, PSUV candidate for the Trujillo state, Gerardo Márquez, threatened opposition followers, saying "You have to help me (...) where the is a escuálido [oppositionist] we have to we have to beat them out of the institutions".

Lawyer Joel García referred to the event on social networks and called the attention of the Public Ministry, citing the Law Against Hate approved by the 2017 Constituent National Assembly.

[22] In July, a delegation of officials from the European External Action Service visited Venezuela to assess the feasibility of deploying electoral observers and wrote an internal report, concluding that the minimum conditions for electoral observation had not been met by that time, citing numerous human rights violations and restrictions on freedoms, although they add that the Venezuelan authorities had hinted that this could change through political negotiation.

[24][25] Borrell stressed that "an unprecedented electoral process will take place, with the concurrence of the majority of political forces for the first time in recent years".

[25] US senators Marco Rubio and Jim Risch expressed their concern over the decision, stating that the observation mission would give Nicolás Maduro international credibility.

[22] On 25 September, Carlos Chancellor, the Ecological Movement's candidate for mayor of Caroní, Bolívar state, was arrested while conducting a campaign rally in San Félix.

[27] On October 3, a radio announcer was attacked by Ernesto Paraqueima, Venezuela First candidate for mayor of the Simón Rodríguez municipality for the party, and his two brothers, in the vicinity of a car wash in El Tigre city.

Videos were posted on social media of supporters facing punches and even shots at the front of Detachment 331 of the Bolivarian National Guard.

[38] Henry Ramos Allup, Secretary General of Democratic Action, representing the so-called G4, the group of most important opposition parties also composed of Primero Justicia, Voluntad Popular and Un Nuevo Tiempo, announced on 31 August 2021 the participation of the Unitary Platform[39] in the regional elections with the electoral card of the Democratic Unity Roundtable, after three years without having done so, in which the majority opposition did not participate in elections due to the lack of democratic conditions and because their card was disabled MUD in January 2018, making it impossible to participate in the 2018 presidential elections.

[48][49] In the San Francisco municipality, Zulia state, a young man was killed and two others were injured after armed people on board white vans, identified as colectivos, fired at the voting center "Colegio Eduardo Emiro Ferrer".

[50][51][52] The deputy to the legislative council of Zulia, Eduardo Labrador, denounced been attacked by armed colectivos that broke into the MUD campaign headquarters in the municipality.

At the voting center "Madre Laura" Archdiocesan Educational Unit, armed motorized riders fired into the air.

[11] After the closing of polling stations in Zulia, a pickup truck rammed into a group of opposition supporters celebrating in front of the house of the MUD candidate, resulting in eleven injured and one dead girl.