The coordinator of the I am Venezuela movement, Teresa Albanes, believes that the primaries can be held with a manual vote and without the CNE. She asked the National Primary Commission to make a “historic decision” in this regard and continue to manage the process as something citizen, since this event “is the first step for the liberation of the country.”
Teresa Albanes, former president of the primary commission and coordinator of the I am Venezuela movement, described as “unacceptable” the response of the National Electoral Council (CNE) to condition its attendance to the National Primary Commission (CP) for the use of fingerprint scanners if she compares this decision with that of 2012, when he was accompanying the process.
However, in an interview with IPV On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 19, Albanes said that this decision by the electoral body “does not surprise him” due to the actions of the body in recent years and told the CP that it should always take into account what was happening with the CNE. In addition, he insisted that said commission should handle the primaries “as a private activity”, that is, that it belongs to the citizens, as part of the objective of setting “specific dates” for the departure of the current administration.
For the also former Minister of Family, the primaries represent “the first step for the liberation of the country” since since the election of a unitary candidate, strength is gained in the population ahead of the 2024 elections.
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In this sense, he hopes that the CP “understands and makes a heroic decision that will be more than rewarded by the popular response”, which has to do with holding the primaries without the support of the CNE and with a manual vote, since it ensures that the capacity exists to organize an event of such magnitude without the support of the Electoral Power.
He recommended to the president of the National Commission for Primary Education, Jesús María Casal, that he take into account that the legitimacy of the entity he presides over is given by the people and not by whoever appoints him, as well as the autonomy to carry out his actions.
In the opinion of Teresa Albanes, if the aforementioned Commission “reflects” on the points argued by the CNE, it will be “fully aware” that the electoral body “is subordinate” to the administration of Nicolás Maduro and recalled that up to now it has not done a regulation that allows regulating voting abroad, just as there are few possibilities for people within the country to update their data or register in the Electoral Registry.
“We are going to do it and hopefully we will accept the challenge of organizing ourselves and having a robust primary. People will trust the results. How many times have we not trusted that. In addition, people will go to the process because they lose their fear of repression,” he said.
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