The president of that body Elvis Amoroso revealed, before the press, the schedule of the elections that will have his campaign between July 4 and 25, and affirmed that the national board evaluated the different proposals and recommendations approved in a document of consensus last week.
Amoroso stated that the schedule includes all the constitutional, legal and technical requirements to celebrate this year’s presidential elections, the 31st since the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution.
The president of the Venezuelan Electoral Power explained that the call for the process begins this March 5 and announced a special national and international registration day from March 18 to April 16.
Likewise, he indicated there will be a preliminary electoral registration cut-off on April 16, the nominations will be made from March 21 to 25, while the selection of the members of the subordinate organizations will be on the 20th of the same month.
He recalled that last Friday the CNE received, from the president of the National Assembly Jorge Rodríguez and other members of its Board of Directors, the approved consensus document, called the Caracas Agreement, that it was signed by the different sectors of social life and politics of the country.
Amoroso highlighted the participation in this process of 97 percent of the registered political parties, which represent 85 percent of the popular vote in the last elections held in December 2021.
He said that the manuscript is framed in the Barbados agreements, signed in October of last year between the Government delegation to the dialogue table and the opposition Democratic Unitary Platform.
The Caracas Agreement was signed on March 1 in the Elliptical Hall of the Federal Legislative Palace by 152 representatives of the political, social, economic, student, cultural, university, entrepreneurs and women sectors, among others.
The proposals were grouped into three fundamental aspects and include general principles such as the defense of sovereignty, independence, self-determination and the rejection of any form of pressure that affects the economy and the lives of Venezuelans.
He also covered electoral guarantees for all and equal opportunities for candidates in participation through traditional press media and social networks, whose mechanisms must be created by the National Electoral Council.
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