Despite Chavismo-promoted changes to the CNE, the Venezuelan opposition approved holding primaries.

The Venezuela protest Approved On this Thursday There are still primaries Despite last-hour changes in leadership National Election Council (CNE).

“The primary continues as we discussed today in the commission meeting. The ship continues its journey towards October 22,” announced Jesus María Casal, head of the National Primary Commission (CNP), which is responsible for organizing the prisoners. .

In this way, the constituency continues to progress in its selection process A candidate to face Chavismo In the presidential election to be held in 2024 And therein they desire Rule must be removed from government.

This Thursday, in a new move by the Maduro dictatorship, The Corresponding rectors of CNE provided their Resignation “Contributing to this noble cause (Venezuela) must be completed towards economic prosperity and social stability,” they reasoned.

After accepting his resignation, the Appointment of new officers of the preliminary commission of the Election Commission, “under Article 295 of the Constitution.”

In this sense, legislators agreed to accept “with parliamentary urgency” the resignations offered today by CNE officials close to Chavismo, and, “Review” the situation of the whole board of the company – Opposition Leaders Enrique Marquez And Roberto Bicon-.

While opposition parties stood firm in the face of this unexpected maneuver by the regime, the constituency leaders rejected the move and warned that it would sabotage the elections.

“The Maduro dictatorship is advancing,” Juan Guaido said Sabotaging primaries and presidential elections. Supervised CNE, in which they rely primarily on using state infrastructure (schools, CNE) upstream, without trust. The response must be more unified and achieve self-managed primacy”.

“No Apology: Leaders, Candidates, Candidate Commands, Political Parties and All of us should put ourselves in the service of the prime commission October 22 should be carried forward. First is the UNIÓN and as a union, we defeated Maduro. Set a date and stop being a coward”, he emphasized below.

The episode took place two weeks after the opposition to Chavismo asked the CNE Support in electoral system Conditions and guarantees such as confidentiality of voter data.

After the last few hours of announcement, there are now two possible scenarios. On the one hand, primaries could be conducted with the help of the company or otherwise progress through “self-managed” elections, Cassel explained, adding that how to proceed is yet to be defined. .

(with information from EFE)

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