The president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Indira Alfonzo, assured this Sunday that the experience in the different voting processes has allowed the electoral body and the Venezuelan voters to speed up the voting process, but also to give greater guarantees for the protection of that vote.
In an interview with the “Análisis Situacional” (Situational Analysis) program, broadcast by the Globovisión TV station, she highlighted how each experience “gave us elements to consolidate an electoral system”, considered one of the best in the world:
“The Human Right to participation, to suffrage, is walking hand in hand with the Right to Health”, she highlighted, regarding covid-19.
The head of the electoral body reiterated the call to all the political organizations participating in the parliamentary elections, that on the day of the elections no propaganda may be made, as they will have a month -as dictated by the electoral norm- from tomorrow until the close of campaign on December 3 to raise their proposals to the population. “It is a respect that voters deserve,” she said.
Media, proposals and plurality for all:
Regarding the media as an important factor in bringing information to everyone; Alfonzo argued that it is a time when plurality and diversity emerge, and in that they must play a role of allowing the participation of all without distinction:
“The traditional media, both public and private, we have to speak of a single Venezuela, of a single sector of society, which has one preference or another”, she said.
She mentioned that the CNE “has created an alternative site that will allow Organizations with Political Purposes to place their electoral proposals”, so that everyone on equal terms knows their candidates, while indicating that the entity will receive the presence of international organizations “to serve as a sounding board, as a multiplier of what we Venezuelans are doing.”
Accompaniment will shield DEC-6 results
“(with) The remote technical monitoring mission, you can be anywhere in the world and we can place you here in real time, so you can see how the evaluation and auditing of the software is being evaluating and behaving, that is something that is happening”, she said.
She indicated that such requests for accompaniment have been made to world organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (UN), multilateral entities such as COPAL, the Puebla Group, as well as representatives of electoral powers in the region. Latin American.
The Venezuelan Electoral Power has issued 267 invitations for international accompaniment, ahead of the parliamentarian elections.
