Build a new Communal Electoral System that guarantees greater proximity to citizens, requested the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, during the Con Maduro+ program, “if thousands of electoral centers have to be opened, it will be done,” he stated.
The head of state pointed out that the inherited electoral system was transformed over time and explained that this approach seeks to facilitate participation in consultations and future elections, so that it is at the convenience of the neighbors, with the aim that voting becomes an accessible and organized exercise from the communities themselves.
He suggested that the electoral system must adapt to the people and territorial realities, and not the other way around. He specified that each commune and circuit has the power to decide how many electoral centers its space requires, without external impositions, in order to strengthen participatory democracy.
Furthermore, he questioned those who criticize this proposal and expressed: “I would like to see if those who make such statements have the ability to walk through a neighborhood, call an assembly in a community and deliver the budgets and resources of the nation to the Popular Power, as the Bolivarian Revolution does.”
“Venezuela has Popular Power and a true democracy,” said President Maduro; by highlighting that this proposal seeks to consolidate an electoral model that responds directly to the needs of the communities and reinforces citizen protagonism in decision-making.
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