The candidate for the opposition primaries on October 22, Andrés Velásquez, warned this Sunday, June 4, that the opposition’s participation in the electoral process will decrease if the National Electoral Council participates in it; This is in response to the announcement made by the National Primary Commission (CP) on Friday the 2nd to request a meeting with the electoral body to “ratify and formalize” their assistance in voting
The former governor of Bolívar and candidate for the opposition primaries on October 22, Andrés Velásquez, assured this Sunday, June 4, that voter participation will decrease if the National Electoral Council (CNE) intervenes in the process.
This is in reference to the announcement made by the National Primary Commission (PC) on Friday the 2nd to request a meeting with the CNE to “ratify and formalize” their assistance in the elections.
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«I will insist: the primary in the hands of the CNE, the number of participants will decrease. The primary is a policy of challenge, of challenge to the dictatorship, therefore, it is a contradiction to put them in the hands of Maduro. Then do not go out and cry for all the consequences that this implies, “Velásquez wrote on his Twitter account.
I will insist: the primary in the hands of the CNE, the number of participants will decrease. The primary is a policy of challenge, of challenge to the dictatorship, therefore it is a contradiction to put them in the hands of Maduro.
Then do not go out and cry for all the consequences that this implies.– Andres Velasquez (@AndresVelasqz) June 4, 2023
Primaries and the CNE
On the night of Friday, June 2, the CP defined, after months of uncertainty regarding the voting mechanism for the opposition primaries on October 22, that technical assistance from the CNE and the use of voting machines with fingerprint scanners will be used. .
“It was approved to request a meeting of the Joint Technical Commission from the CNE in order to ratify and formalize what has been dealt with so far within the framework of said Joint Commission, in relation to various aspects and guarantees of the Primary, including that related to the protection of the identity of the voters. If these specifications are confirmed, technical assistance will be requested for the organization of the Primary on October 22, 2023,” the CP informed through a release.
After this announcement by the CP, the campaign command of the pre-candidate María Corina Machado criticized this Saturday, June 3, through a very brief statement, that the CP “still unexplained the country what ‘technical assistance from the CNE’ means.
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