Mayor Carmen Meléndez was proclaimed on July 29 as reelected for the 2026-2030 period, in an act headed by the CNE. Obtained 350,995 votes, which represents only 20% of the electoral roll of the Libertador municipality. She said that “it was a drag” and that all of Caracas went out to vote
The mayor of the Libertador municipality of Caracas, Carmen Meléndez, received the credentials from the National Electoral Council (CNE) as a reelection official for the 2026-2030 period, although she said that all Caracas came out to vote in the municipal elections of last July 27, the number of votes announced by the CNE the night of the elections allows to calculate that only 20.09% of the electors of the electors of the jurisdiction They lifted for her.
The act of proclamation, where the elected councilors for this municipality were also accredited, took place on Tuesday, July 29 at the Guayana Esequiba Cultural and Sports Center, in San Bernardino. After this act, Meléndez remains in administrative continuity in the management it already exercises.
On Monday, July 28, the CNE disseminated the names of the winners of 334 municipalities nationwide, without offering details of votes or percentages. So far, those in this regard are those offered by the CNE in the First newsletter announced Sunday nightWhen Elvis Amoros said that Carmen Meléndez was reelected as mayor of the Libertador municipality with 350,995 votes, of a total participation of 39.26% of “active electors”, concept not explained by the authorities.
Loving on Sunday that Meléndez obtained 86.44% of the votes cast in Libertador. The electoral roll of that municipality for these elections was 1,747,011 voters.
Mayor Carmen Meléndez won her re -election with only 20.09% of Libertador’s voters, in voting where real participation reached about 406,056 voters in that jurisdiction.
Carmen Meléndez described the results of July 27 as “a drag” and said that “in Caracas everyone came to vote.” He indicated being committed to the people and said that they will see it working in all the communities of this municipality.
*Also read: CNE Disseminates municipal results without data on votes or percentages
In this municipal election (with 82.45% transmission of the tables), “more than 44% of active voters,” said Loving, which “projected to 100% participation represents 6,273,531 voters and electors.” But when taking the electoral record enabled for these elections, real participation reached 29%.
The National Electoral Council included in its list of winners those of 334 municipalities of the country, with 284 offices for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and 50 for unofficial parties; and did not include a result for the Pirit municipality of the Falcón state. Nicolás Maduro Said Sunday night that the opposition had won in 50 municipalities and the PSUV in 285 of them.
*Also read: What is an active voter? The new CNE criterion that does not appear in the electoral law
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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