“We want to announce to the country that the Preliminary Commission of the Electoral Nominations Committee has been installed,” said the deputy Giuseppe Alessandrello in statements to the media this Friday made in the National Assembly.
The legislator stressed that this commission has the task of “transitioning” to the Electoral Nominations Committee.
Its functions, continued Alessandrellois to convene the applications to receive and evaluate them and, finally, select a list of eligible citizens and present them to the National Assembly where it will be decided in plenary who will be the new rectors of the Venezuelan Electoral Power.
“This Preliminary Commission has the mission of incorporating ten citizens who come from civil society into its midst,” he said.
For this reason, from Monday, June 19, the call will be made -with a duration of seven days- for the incorporation of these ten people to the 11 deputies who already make up said Commission.
“We are very aware of the republican responsibility that we have (…), we will work in accordance with what is established by the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Organic Law of Electoral Power, to successfully complete the task that we have been assigned”, closed the parliamentarian in his statement.
On Thursday afternoon, the National Assembly approved by a qualified majority the creation of the Preliminary Commission that will make up the Nominations Committee to renew the authorities of the National Electoral Council (CNE), after the resignation of its rectors this morning.
This Commission is made up of parliamentarians Giuseppe Alessandrello, Desirée Santos Amaral, José Gregorio Correa, Cilia Flores, Nosliw Rodríguez, Didalco Bolívar, José Villarroel, Luis Romero, Miguel Salazar, Ricardo Sánchez and Gloria Castillo.
In this regard, the president of the venezuelan parliamentDeputy Jorge Rodríguez, assumed as an “urgent” and “fundamental” task that the formation of the new CNE come out of the AN.
“Today we are being summoned to preserve the victory of peace, we are being summoned to strictly and expressly comply with this Constitution. It is urgent, it is essential that from this National Assembly, complying with the established periods, the formation of the new National Electoral Council must come out urgently”, stressed the head of the Venezuelan Legislature.
