Venezuela: Over 15,000 Polling Stations Are Receiving Citizens in the Presidential Elections
A polling station in Caracas, July 28, 2024. Photo: teleSUR
July 28, 2024 Hour: 8:01 am
Citizens are enthusiastically lining up outside polling stations to cast their votes.
At 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, Venezuelan polling stations opened their doors to receive over 21 million citizens who are eligible to vote in the presidential elections on July 28.
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Previously, the National Electoral Council (CNE) opened 15,767 polling stations throughout the country, 100 percent of which are operating without any incidents.
Citizens are enthusiastically lining up outside polling stations to cast their votes. In some sectors of the country, the electoral enthusiasm was very noticeable as some people were queuing since Saturday night.
The polling stations will remain open for 12 hours without interruption. They will remain operational as long as there are voters in line waiting to enter the polling stations.
In a completely digitalized voting process, ten presidential candidates will appear on the voting machines. Among them is the current President Nicolas Maduro, who is the candidate of the Great Patriotic Pole, a coalition of leftist organizations that brings together supporters of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Other presidential candidates are Edmundo Gonzalez, evangelical pastor Javier Bertucci, comedian Benjamin Rausseo, former mayors Daniel Ceballos and Claudio Fermin, former councilman Antonio Ecarri, legislators Luis Martinez and Jose Brito, and former electoral president Enrique Marquez.
Over 388,000 members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) and other state security forces are deployed in Venezuelan territory to ensure peace on election day. For security reasons, the authorities closed the Venezuelan land border crossings with Colombia and Brazil.
Autor: teleSUR/ JF
Fuente: EFE
