Venezuelan presidential candidate nominations move forward

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In Venezuela, the nomination of candidates for the presidential elections of next July 28 continued this Friday, when candidates of opposition political organizations appeared before the National Electoral Council (CNE). teleSUR

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00:00 As we said before, on Friday is taking place in Venezuela the second day of registration

00:06 of candidates for the presidential elections to be held on July 28.

00:11 On Thursday, the registration period for the candidates of the parties that will participate

00:16 in those elections began throughout Venezuela.

00:20 To know more about this stage of registration of candidates prior to the electoral appointment

00:28 and wishes also constitutionally necessary, we have in Caracas our correspondent Gladys

00:35 Quesada.

00:36 Hi Gladys.

00:37 Hi Irma, thanks for the contact and thanks for the time here in Telus for English and

00:42 too from the south.

00:44 Behind me, as you can see, there is the COPE affiliates that came to inscribe, to registrate

00:50 and also to put in legal terms their nominee, Juan Carlos Alvarado, and other political

00:56 forces are coming in here to endorse his candidacy and also to support him.

01:01 This is the electoral ambience, the electoral atmosphere that is in Venezuela right now

01:05 currently.

01:06 I'm at the National Electoral Council where the registration process is ongoing for the

01:10 second day in a row.

01:13 As we were saying, this process is going to be moving until March 25th.

01:18 Also prior to this nomination was the nomination of Antonio Carri, who is the candidate for

01:24 the Lapiz coalition, the Lapiz association, and has the endorsement of other opposition

01:29 political forces that support his inscription, his also registry as the candidate and nominee

01:36 by this party.

01:37 This is the second day, as we were saying yesterday, where opposition parties that were

01:43 registering their nominee and today is the same because also other political forces of

01:49 opposition have come in here and will come in here to do the same, to do the legal registration

01:56 of their candidates.

01:58 So far, Antonio Carri proposed some points of his government's program as education for

02:03 all.

02:04 Also, he was saying that it is paramount for Venezuela to find another industries and solutions

02:10 to enterprises also and entrepreneurs alongside the oil industry.

02:17 We know that they have been asking for no more sanctions and to stop the international

02:25 interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela.

02:28 Those were the main points of his address to the people in here, to his affiliates,

02:33 and to the presidency of the National Electoral Council after he was officially registered

02:39 as a nominee for this election.

02:41 Those are the key points of what has been going on today here in the National Electoral

02:46 Council.

02:47 We are inside the nomination venue, so we will be having all the details.

02:52 And right now, I have to stop because you can see the ambience and the affiliates are

02:57 giving their applause to the candidate and the nomination process for him, for the Copay

03:01 candidate, is just about to start.

03:04 So these are the details.

03:05 This is the information.

03:06 Irma, back to you.

03:10 Thank you, Gladys Quesada, for this summary offer.

03:14 next broadcast we will have other contests with you.

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