PSUV Secretary General Diosdado Cabello addressing journalists' questions during a weekly party press conference on June 9, 2025. Photo: PSUV.
This Monday, June 9, the secretary general of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, reported that 173,448 candidates were registered in the party’s recent grassroots assemblies.
“It is a real, true democracy, a participatory and protagonist democracy. There are 155,875 unique postulations, but there were 173,448 nominations. There are 17,573 candidates running for more than one post, and who nominates them? The people,” Cabello said.
He emphasized that the candidates nominated in the June 7 nationwide assemblies come from political and ideological backgrounds shaped by revolutionary struggles, making them well-suited to assume any political responsibility entrusted to them.
“These 155,875 people are members of our party, trained in the revolution. Some trained before Commander Hugo Chávez became president, and their names are at the disposal of the Great Patriotic Pole, the high political command, for appropriate decision-making,” Cabello said.
Election campaign
Diosdado Cabello stated that the campaign for the July 27 municipal elections should mirror the May 25 approach: “more street and less stage.”
During the weekly PSUV press conference, he quoted President Nicolás Maduro, “As the president says, less bureaucracy, more efficiency. Less office, more territory,” he emphasized.
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He noted that candidate registration will begin next Monday and run through Friday, stressing that the revolution will remain united.
“It has been an unprecedented success. Remember, we were coming off an election, and people might say, ‘What is the point?’ But no, people like elections,” he said.
Cabello asserted that Venezuela has a real, true, participatory and protagonist democracy.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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