A lesson in democracy and political consciousness
A lesson in democracy and political consciousness
By Arturo Rosales writes from Caracas
Monday, Jun 29, 2015
At the time this writing begins, there are still two hours to go before voting in the internal elections to nominate parliamentary candidates of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) comes to an end at 6pm.
The PSUV is using 3966 voting stations up and down the country, which is about 20% of what would be opened up for a national election. Obviously, internal elections to select candidates will attract fewer voters than in a true politically competitive election.
Internal elections are taking place in all 87 voting districts to elect 167 candidates out of a total of 1162 pre-candidates that were chosen in mass democratic and political meetings by grass roots organizations of the PSUV. All pre-candidates have signed a binding pledge to respect the results published by the National Electoral Council (CNE) and then support the elected candidates against whom they competed today.
The actual parliamentary elections are due to take place on December 6 – 17 years to the day after Chávez won his first presidential election to spark life into the Bolivarian Revolution in 1998.
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