Photos and videos published by users and media in social networks evidence empty voting centers, or with very few people in a row, to vote this Sunday in the municipal elections. The scene is repeated in Caracas and throughout the country.
The little voter assistance occurs in the context of the call to the abstention of the main opposition platform, led by María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia, who consider that there are no conditions for a free and transparent choice.
“On July 28, 2024 he is alive in the memory of the Venezuelan, the response to the electoral farce convened by Maduro and his scorpions has been brutal. Disobedience and citizen awareness,” said Alfredo Ramos, former mayor of Iribarren.
The call to abstention in voting centers
María Corina Machado He assured on Saturday that Chavismo would remain alone in the municipal elections as it happened, he said, in the presidential elections of July 28, 2024 and in the regional ones of May 25.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) holds the elections to choose 335 mayors and the members of the same number of municipal councils, in which an opposition minority sector headed by those burgomaster currently participates in exercise that will fight for their spaces.
The chief of the electoral campaign of Chavismo, Jorge Rodríguez, He denies that there is electoral abstention. He said that participation in Venezuela is a cause for envy by some countries.
“Abstention does not exist because it is a ghost, it is simply non -existent, what exists are the votes,” Rodriguez said in a press conference broadcast on the Venezuelan state television channel.
Who have voted from the opposition?
Gustavo Duque, mayor and candidate for re -election by Chacao, voted and asked citizens to vote massively to protect the spaces in the hands of the opposition.
The mayor and aspiring re -election by the Baruta municipality, Darwin González, also voted and urged Venezuelans to participate in the elections.
Alfredo Catalán, mayor of El Hatillo and applicant, He said they are happy Seeing participation in the municipality during a tour in the morning.
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