Venezuela, 4th day of the presidential candidate registration process

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From Caracas, Venezuela, our correspondent Gladys Quesada updates us on the registration process for presidential candidates. teleSUR

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00:00 Venezuela the registration process of presidential candidates continue for more details. We'll go once again with a correspondent lies. Yes, other live from Caracas

00:07 Thank you Luis for the contact and thank you for this time

00:14 Actually, we continue here in the National Electoral Council and as you can see there is other nomination

00:25 That it is also preparing and the affiliates of other party are getting in here to continue with this process

00:33 as we were saying this is the fourth day of the nomination process here in the National Electoral Council and

00:38 So far this morning many candidates of opposition and independent parties have come in here to submit their in-person

00:47 requests to be a candidate for their political force and also to submit their

00:52 Program of government as we have been saying all over this process. So actually

00:57 Last time we spoke Benjamin

00:59 Rousell was submitting his his campaign

01:03 Pledges and also submitted his program for a government

01:07 let's recall that he is a very well-known figure in the political and

01:12 Cultural landscape here in Venezuela as he used to be an actor and a comedian

01:17 But now he is a candidate running for the condé political organization

01:22 He is an independent candidate and he was calling for something that I want to stress as all their candidates of the opposition

01:28 And also affiliated with the government. He was asking for unity national unity in Venezuela

01:34 And also he was calling for not using smear campaigns in the nation during the campaigning

01:41 time ahead of the elections to be respectful towards other candidates and

01:47 moreover

01:48 respectful

01:49 Towards the people to be respectful of the people's intelligence and the people's will during this campaign and during the elections

01:56 He was saying and I stress we all have something to give

02:00 Referring to the need for everyone to go and vote on July 28th and not leave a blank ballots and not to be

02:08 absent from the polling stations

02:11 He was calling for the youth to be also present in this process to take part in the campaigning

02:17 And he was calling for the youth to go and vote to exercise this democratic right and their duty as the citizens of Venezuela

02:24 also

02:26 water of the candidates that was presenting their

02:29 Registrar was Claudio Fermin Maldonado who is the candidate of soluciones por Venezuela

02:36 Which is the right coalition of parties and he was stressing and calling for improving

02:40 Economic relations and the industry in Venezuela and to find solutions out of the oil industry in the nation

02:48 also, he was calling for

02:50 finding concord between the candidates and also he was saying that whoever that results as the winner of this presidential

02:57 Elections must find a common path with other political forces and must find

03:02 also

03:05 peace and

03:07 Fair treatment amongst the candidates. Also this morning was Jose Alejandro Rari

03:13 That has had a very peculiar

03:15 Political career here in the country because he was an affiliate of other parties

03:21 But today he finds his ways amongst the Christian and evangelical forces and he was

03:28 stressing the need for not calling for more sanctions that only affects the people and the humble of Venezuela and

03:35 For finding peace amongst the candidates so far

03:38 This is one common pledge among every one of the nominees here in the National Electoral Council

03:44 He was also saying

03:46 that

03:48 those who ask for a stoppage of the referendum on the esequibo region that was a

03:54 Referendum on the defense of Venezuelan territory has no right to come here and to ask and demand

04:00 For a candidate and for nomination that was the way he expressed that those that are against the Venezuelan people

04:07 cannot be a Venezuelan candidate to the presidency and now we are expecting the nomination and the registry of

04:15 the party to Pamara which is an organization with

04:19 Socialist and leftist tendencies and they are coming in here

04:23 They are just starting their nomination process and that's what is happening

04:27 And that's what is ongoing here in the National Electoral Council right now. So that's the information list

04:32 I will give you more details and we'll give you more information

04:36 as the day goes on and as the other forces nominate their candidates and submit the

04:42 Documentation here in the National Electoral Council. So so far back to you

04:47 Thank you Clarice as always for the updated reports on this registration process being held in Caracas at the National Electoral Council

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