PSUV Special Congress Begins in Venezuela (+27 April Elections)

Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—The Venezuelan people represented by their social bases, workers, youth and United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) members launched on Tuesday, February 4, the PSUV Special Congress to discuss strategy for the upcoming parliamentary and governors elections schedule for April 27. The date of the opening of the congress coincided with the 33th anniversary of the February 4, 1992 military rebellion led by Commander Hugo Chávez.

Grassroots activists, governors, and mayors met in Caracas to debate, until February 6, the methodology to select the PSUV candidates for the upcoming elections. In the last elections of this nature, the PSUV opted for a primary election methodology, but according to various analysts, due the imminence of the election the primaries would not be the advisable path this time.

During the opening session, the first vice president of the PSUV, Diosdado Cabello, explained that the special congress has 2,354 delegates and will follow this agenda:

Define a methodology for the selection of candidates for the upcoming elections.
The organization of the party at the level of communal circuits.
The organization and structure of the Historic Block and its activities in the Communal Circuits.

Cabello added that seven task groups will be formed, each with a political team from the national leadership of the party, organized according to territorial regions involving the following states:

Caracas and Miranda: Carmen Melendez, Tania Diaz, Fidel Vasquez, Adam Chavez, and Dey Oliveros.
Carabobo, Aragua, and Yaracuy: Francisco Torrealba, Ricardo Molina, Julio León Heredia, Aurora Paredes, and Fernando Soto Rojas.
Lara, Falcón, and Zulia: Francisco Ameliach, Victor Clark, Diva Guzman, Erika Farias, and Genifer Garvett.
Apure, Barinas, Cojedes, and Portuguesa: Blanca Eekhout, Jacqueline Faria, Iris Valera, Eduardo Piñate, and Jocsen Alvarado.
Táchira, Mérida, and Trujillo: Pedro Carreño, Freddy Bernal, Jehyson Guzman, Greece Colmenares, and Josneysi Paredes.
Guárico, Monagas, Anzoátegui, and Sucre: Luis José Marcano, América Pérez, Jesús Farias, Rodbexa Poleo, and María León.
La Guaira, Bolívar, Delta Amacuro, and Nueva Esparta: José Alejandro Terán, Giuseppe Alessandrello, Rander Peña, Yelitze Santella, and Liusmali Perdomo.

Cabello explained that during the congress, the candidates selection methodology would be finalized, and made it clear that all candidates must be accepted and supported by “our people at the base of the party, so that we can continue strengthening the structure.” He pointed out that, in addition to the guidelines established in the Constitution and the Red Book of the PSUV, the candidates must also have close contact with the communal circuits.

He said that the candidate selection method should comprise grassroots consultations and assemblies led by the communities, along with polls. He explained that three or five pre-existing and upcoming opinion polls on governor candidates will be evaluated, together with the suggestions from a national PSUV assembly.

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Cabello highlighted the requirements established in the PSUV guidelines for the selection of a candidate, that include “being a Venezuelan, a patriot, a revolutionary, an anti-imperialist, a Chavista, a defender of Supreme Commander Hugo Chávez, and being a factor of unity, who must be of recognized ethics and morals to be a member of the PSUV or its youth organization.”

After Cabello’s speech, President Nicolás Maduro, who is also the president of the PSUV, took the microphone to reiterate that the PSUV will win the elections on April 27 “by beating the opposition, the far-right.”

“We have called this congress to define our positions in order to win the elections of the National Assembly, the governorships and state legislative councils, which will take place in Venezuela on April 27 of this year 2025,” he said. “We have to win in two directions, if I may say so, using the materialist dialectic of Jesús Martínez, to win in the qualitative sense as well as in the quantitative sense.”

He instructed the entire party mechanism to prepare qualitatively to organize the people. “We must prepare all the forces of the popular movement, all the forces of the collectives and of the Great Patriotic Pole, qualitatively, to have the best government programs, in each state and council, totally in tune with the 7 Transformations Plan of the 7T Revolution.”

The Venezuelan head of state added that the governorship structures “should be completely reorganized so that they are at the service of popular power, the communes and the people,” that they be instruments of the great changes and transformations that the country needs in order to build a new political model.

Special for Orinoco Tribune by staff

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