Venezuelan voting machine and paper ballot box using for elections. File photo.
A total of 1,326 national and international journalists were accredited by the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) to cover the presidential elections scheduled for this Sunday, July 28. This, along more that 600 electoral observers, is another sign of the transparency and robustness of the Venezuelan electoral system.
This large group of journalists brings together 164 special correspondents from 76 international media outlets, including mainstream media agencies and outlets such as AP, AFP, EFE, Bloomberg, and Thomson Reuters, reported AVN.
Also participating are journalists from Kyodo News, Yomiuri Shimbun, and Mainichi Newspaper (Japan); ARD Radio and Television (Germany); BBC News, BBC World, The Guardian, and the Financial Times (United Kingdom); RTVE (Spain); Liberation, Le Monde, and France 24 (France); Al Jazeera English (Qatar); and The Washington Post, New York Times, and CBS News (US).
Along with photographers, cameramen and technical staff from the foreign press, journalists began arriving in the country last Wednesday to complete the accreditation process with the National Electoral Council. The international journalists join 106 professionals belonging to the 31 media outlets with correspondents already based in Venezuela.
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Likewise, 1,056 communication workers from 33 public and private national media outlets were accredited, for a total of 140 media outlets that will cover the elections and all electoral events next Sunday. This includes correspondents from Germany, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, China, Colombia, Dominica, the United States, Spain, France, Japan, Lebanon, Paraguay, Qatar, the United Kingdom, Russia, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Switzerland, and Uruguay.
Next Sunday, Venezuela will hold presidential elections with 10 candidates competing, nine of whom represent opposition factions, and one of whom is the incumbent candidate of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Nicolás Maduro.
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