President Nicolás Maduro at a work meeting discussing the upcoming nationwide consultations for selecting priority communal projects. Photo: Presidential Press.
President Nicolás Maduro invited the Venezuelan people to participate in the community elections to be held next Sunday, August 25, in which priority projects for each commune will be voted. “Today we are working on a very special issue of attention for Venezuela, which is the call for communal elections in Venezuela for next Sunday, August 25, so that the people can choose their priority projects,” President Maduro announced.
The president highlighted that the communal consultations represent a fundamental step to strengthen participatory democracy and self-administration in Venezuela. “Elections, democracy, participation, freedom, peace, progress, improvement, perfecting our system,” Maduro stressed.
He announced that the elections will be held in 4,505 communal circuits, which comprise 49,000 communal councils, with the participation of approximately 1.5 million communal spokespersons.
He also highlighted the participation of women in the communal councils. “Almost 70% [of community leaders] are women, the spokespersons of the communal councils of the whole territory are women,” he said.
The Venezuelan head of state emphasized the importance of elections as a mechanism of direct and popular democracy. “You, my neighbors, my compatriots, for you we have direct, free and secret elections on August 25, in 4,505 communal circuits of more than 49,000 communal councils of the country, which is the organic expression of the constitution and the laws, of real, true and direct democracy,” he stressed.
President Maduro Proposes National Popular Consultations Every 3 Months
He further highlighted Venezuela’s sovereignty and its model of participatory democracy. “Venezuela has its own model of democracy, we are building it,” he said. “We do not accept imposition, interventionism, we do not allow anyone to put their filthy hands in our beloved and beautiful country. Venezuela has people’s power. Venezuela has a constitution, Venezuela has laws, and on August 25 the people will be there to vote.”
The president reiterated his commitment to strengthening the construction of a State based on social justice and democracy. “We have to more forward towards a democratic, social, just and lawful State,” he stressed. “In Venezuela there is a social democratic state of justice and constitutional law. Our Revolution was born with a constitution in its hand, in its heart.”
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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Luigino Bracci
He is passionate about computer science since he was about 14 years old, at that age “a man gave me a small computer that he had bought in the eighties, of those that were connected to a television and had to be programmed to work (a Sinclair ZX81 ), and I really liked it.” On his political inclination, his parents were a great influence. “They were people of very humble origins, both emigrants, dissatisfied with injustice and inequality. But they were not militants of the left. I had many other influences, classmates in HS whose parents were on the left, as well as several teachers who were trained in the Pedagogical and gave us classes at a time as conflictive as it was the presidency of CAP and the military insurrection of Chávez ” He enrolled in the UCV and in 2006 he graduated in Computing, a career that he complements with popular communication in the digital field.
