Venezuela: Jorge Rodriguez held a press conference to inform citizens about the electoral process

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00:00Let's go now to Caracas with our special envoy Yunus Sunayr for more details as Venezuela

00:05enters the final stretch of the electoral campaign.

00:08Hello, good afternoon from Caracas, Venezuela.

00:12The presidential campaign is approaching closely to its end.

00:17Today Jorge Rodriguez, who is the general coordinator of our Venezuela campaign that

00:23supports the president Nicolás Maduro, has held a press conference.

00:29Rodriguez said they had visited more than 180 cities during the campaign together with

00:36the president, some of them by surprise, and had gathered thousands and thousands and thousands

00:42of people.

00:43He also announced they will continue the campaign, now having a closing in each of the 23 states

00:51of Venezuela.

00:53He additionally announced that on July 25 here in Caracas there will be a huge meeting,

01:00let's say conquest of Caracas, with millions of people attending to it, that will start

01:06at 10 o'clock in the morning and will last until 10 o'clock in the evening.

01:12So during the whole day the Chavistas will take the streets of Caracas, said Rodriguez.

01:18He also reacted to calls of fraud by some oppositional politicians.

01:24He said, he called them again to recognize the results as they are announced by the National

01:31Election Council, which is the only official institution that is allowed to announce any

01:37results regarding the elections.

01:39And he said they on themselves, our Venezuela campaign of Nicolás Maduro will first immediately

01:45recognize the results as they are announced by the National Election Council, will celebrate

01:51these and, he added, they will defend these results on the streets with their lives if

01:57necessary on the evening of July 28.

02:00We also asked Rodriguez about recent reports that said that the Wilson Center, a U.S. government

02:07funded think tank, had presented a report beginning of July calling the institution

02:13to make a count on their own and, moreover, to announce results in the afternoon or in

02:21the evening prior to the National Election Council.

02:26And that report by the Wilson Center, written by a former presidential advisor at the White

02:31House, also called the international community to immediately publicly recognize these results

02:38that will be published by the opposition.

02:42Rodriguez responded the following.

02:44He said, stupidity is free.

02:47They are free to be stupid.

02:48They did this before.

02:50They did this with Juan Guaido, the president of one of the most powerful countries in the

02:56world, has believed that thing, has believed this guy.

03:00He has spent millions of dollars to support him and now where is he, where are these million

03:05dollars?

03:06So if they want to do it again, they can do so.

03:09We on the other side, we in Venezuela are experts to disarm disinformation and to fight

03:17against such campaigns, said Jorge Rodriguez, responsible of Nicolás Maduro's campaign.

03:24He again reiterated that they are ready to celebrate, to recognize, to celebrate and

03:31to defend the victory.

03:33So the country is approaching the closing of the campaign and Caracas on July 25 will

03:39witness a huge rally by the Chavistas that will display their mass support once again.

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