The Nobel committee, which selects the winners of the Nobel Prize, has announced on Friday that the Peace Prize for the year 2025 is being awarded to Maria Corina Machado , the opposition leader of Venenuzela, “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

This comes in the wake of US President Donald Trump repeatedly claiming in the past few months that he should be awarded the Nobel prize for “helping” stop what he claims are ‘wars’ around the world.

The chairperson of the Nobel committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes was asked during the announcement of the 2025 peace prize winner why Donald Trump was not considered for the same, to which he replied, “This commit

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