Jorge Rodríguez on electoral calendar proposals: All guarantees were incorporated

Published at: 28/02/2024 01:40 PM

The president of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, announced this Wednesday the three fundamental aspects into which the proposals derived from the National Dialogue days were grouped to define the electoral calendar, ahead of the presidential elections of this year 2024.

From the Federal Legislative Palace, during the signing of the agreement that includes proposals from all political sectors of the country to be presented to the National Electoral Council (CNE), Rodríguez pointed out that “more than 150 working meetings were held that forced us to process more than 500 proposals that were grouped into three fundamental aspects of the work of the electoral calendar.”

He pointed out that in the first instance, “the principles of sovereignty, of independence, of rejection of any form of pressure, wherever it comes from, of rejection of any way of affecting the economy and the life to which Venezuelans are entitled, in the form of so-called sanctions, respect for our independence, for our self-determination, for the institutions that our Constitution grants them in order to advance in the future of daily life.”

Secondly, he highlighted “electoral guarantees for all and for all. Venezuela has a robust, automated electoral system that is among the most effective, efficient, fastest and most reliable in the entire world, but the more guarantees provided to the electoral event, the more relaxed citizens will feel in participating in the next presidential election event.”

Rodríguez assured that this document “contains all the fundamental electoral guarantees that were part of the proposals submitted to the board of directors, proposals that undergo extensive audits; more than 19 audits of the Venezuelan electoral system.”

Finally, he stressed that equal opportunities are fundamental in participation in traditional media “and in the disruption that social networks have had throughout the planet for electoral campaigns (...) that all of us can participate on equal terms and that the State favors by all means so that the political party, the group of voters, the candidate, the candidates feel they are participating under equal conditions”, he explained.

“All the guarantees were incorporated for this document, which will be presented to the Electoral Power, to the National Electoral Council, which is the only entity according to our Constitution that can convene electoral events of any kind and that can draw up the corresponding electoral schedule,” he emphasized.

Mazo News Team