47,000 communities will nominate nearly 3,000 candidates for local-level positions.

On Saturday, Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) will hold assemblies in 47,000 communities to choose candidates for the upcoming municipal council elections scheduled for July 27.

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“All Venezuelan communities will participate, just as we did when selecting governors, in assemblies on June 7,” PSUV Secretary Diosdado Cabello said during a meeting with representatives of the Great Patriotic Pole coalition.

The grassroot assemblies will begin at 2 p.m. local time throughout the country. Data will be uploaded using the CC200 app, a digital tool that allows community leaders to register candidates through the “nomination button.”

This mechanism was already used during the regional and legislative elections on May 25, in which the Great Patriotic Pole won 23 out of 24 governorships and 256 out of 285 seats in the National Assembly.

The text reads, “‘I hope the opposition comes out to beat them again,’ Maduro said in relation to the call for municipal elections.”

For this new round of assemblies, Cabello urged that each one be “properly documented and promoted” on social media.

On Wednesday, the National Electoral Council (CNE) confirmed that the campaign period for mayoral and municipal council candidates will run from July 11 to July 24. On July 27, Venezuelans will elect 335 mayors, 2,471 municipal council members, and 69 Indigenous representatives.

“During the campaign, we’ll go out into the streets to solve problems with the people. We have integrity, and we have candidates from the people!” the PSUV secretary said.

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Source: PSUV – EFE

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