The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro Moros, announced that he will request the National Assembly (AN), the inclusion of Open Primary Elections within the Organic Law of Electoral Processes, “so that they are mandatory for all political parties in the country”.
“It is a good proposal to be studied by the National Assembly, as well as it can be debated at the dialogue table that was established in September 2019”, said the Head of State this Sunday, at a press conference offered at the “Simón Rodríguez” Bolivarian Ecological School in Fort Tiuna, after exercising his right to vote in the PSUV-EPA (Open Primary elections) held this Sunday.
Regarding the internal process of the red party, by means of which the Venezuelan people decide on the candidates who will become the standard bearers of the PSUV for the next mega-elections on November 21, he emphasized the importance of consolidating the new scenarios and expressions of leading democracy throughout the country and its institutions.
He emphasized that “it is a right to participate, to decide, to (exert) popular sovereignty. It has been correct to open the doors of the great house of the PSUV so that its true owners may enter, so that the common men and women may enter (…) and exercise their absolute sovereignty through voting, through participation”.
By highlighting the successful development of the journey, the National President thanked the National Electoral Council for its support, and described the Venezuelan electoral system as “the best in the world, fast, simple and safe,” while inviting all Venezuelan men and women to exercise their right to vote:
“Now it depends on you, at the end of the road it all depends on you, the one who makes the decision is the sovereign people, the conscious, organized people”.
In this sense, he specified the PSUV is setting an example of true, direct and participatory democracy: “We believe in the way of voting, and since we took the way of voting that April 19, 1997 in Valencia, we go persevering”.
He recalled that, of the 26 elections that have been held since the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution, “we have won 24”, which is why he called for work without triumphalism.
