Political parties close electoral campaigns in Venezuela - MPPRE

Political parties close electoral campaigns in Venezuela

Venezuela’s political parties and organizations whose candidates will participate in the December 6 parliamentary elections closed on Thursday, November3, their electoral campaigns.

The organizations comprising the Simón Bolívar Great Patriotic Pole marched in Caracas, where President Nicolás Maduro rejected the claims of Donald Trump’s “moribund government,” which announced his intention to not recognize the results of the Venezuelan elections.

“From the streets of our historical and heroic Caracas, we tell you: ‘Go to hell’,” he responded. “What matters to us is what the Venezuelan people do. It is up to the Venezuelan people to elect,” he stressed.

The Venezuelan president reiterated his rejection to criticism against the electoral process by extreme right opposition sectors that are trying to portray the parliamentary elections as a plebiscite to distort their true sense.

“We cannot tolerate such lies, every day, every hour,” said Maduro, who explained the parliamentary elections “are a national election. They wanted to turn it into a plebiscite, and I accept the challenge. I tell the Venezuelan women: My fate is in your hands. I will continue to be President if you go out and vote.”

The Great Patriotic Pole also filled the streets in other states to close a 30-day campaign featuring events and meetings with social sectors.

Opposition certifies electoral system

Venezuela’s opposition parties and their candidates also closed their electoral campaigns. Leaders of COPEI Social Christian Party offered a press conference to inform that its technicians have participated in the auditing to certify the functioning of the voting machines.

“We tell those Venezuelans who still have doubts about participating in the December 6 elections that their votes are armored. The vote is 100% secret,” said Juan Carlos Alvarado, COPEI secretary general.

Likewise, Secretary General of Cambiemos, Timoteo Zambrano, took part on Thursday in the swearing-in of his political party’s coordinators and witnesses that will be deployed in the voting centers of Miranda states. Zambrano called on Venezuelans to participate in the elections.

Also, political party El Cambio closed its campaign on Wednesday in Valencia, Carabobo state’s capital city, and its candidates took part in different activities and meetings in other states.

Soluciones para Venezuela, a political party headed by Claudio Fermín, closed its campaign with visits to different communities as part of their work with the base of the political organization.

On Sunday, December 6, over 20 million voters will go to the polls to elect 277 new National Assembly members among the over 14,000 candidates for the 2012-2026 National Assembly term.