Venezuela, 3rd National Public Consultation to be held on February 2

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*Projects financed in previous consultations are now a reality in the El Panal 2021 commune *Public consultations seek to achieve a participative and protagonist democracy *Results of public consultations in El Panal evidence the consolidation of the people's power

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00:00Days before the first National Public Consultation of 2025,

00:04Salazar will visit different communes to know the transformation

00:07that their inhabitants have carried out through this democratic and participative initiative.

00:12Belén de los Santos with more detail from the panel 2021 commune.

00:17On Sunday, February 2nd, the communes and communal circuits of Venezuela will go to the polls.

00:24Instead of electing representatives, Venezuelans will be able to directly decide

00:28which community projects will be financed in their territories.

00:33This is the third National Public Consultation,

00:36another chapter in the construction of Bolivarian participative and protagonist democracy.

00:42In the El Panal 2021 commune, located in the iconic 23 de Enero parish in Caracas,

00:49this new instance of popular organization is eagerly awaited.

00:54With lots of joy, with much enthusiasm, in recent days we held an assembly with our nine communities,

01:02where they postulated six projects ranging from repairs to cultural spaces,

01:07fixing of leaks in our buildings, in our houses.

01:10We have tried to ensure that the reality of our communities

01:13is represented in this participation of the 2025 National Public Consultation.

01:23The two previous National Consultations held in 2024 have already left their mark in El Panal.

01:30At that time, the residents of the commune decided to finance the renovation of a staircase

01:34of vital importance for the daily life of the commune and the purchase of an ambulance

01:40to guarantee the transfers to health centers. These projects are now a reality.

01:49The ambulance is for us our first executed project.

01:52It was really an initiative of our people, it has changed the community a lot.

01:57Now from the people's power it is possible with a lot of effort to have our own means

02:00for the transfer and health care of our people.

02:06And truly, many people, both here in building 28 and in the whole community,

02:10have benefited from having the ambulance, people from here and from outside,

02:14so it is very good, it really is.

02:17For the neighbors of El Panal, the consultation evidences the steps taken by the Bolivarian

02:22government to achieve a participative and protagonist democracy

02:26based on the strengthening of the popular power.

02:30This relation between the government and the grassroots, popular power,

02:34is fundamental to really reorganize the whole of society, to put the people

02:41al mando, we would say in Spanish, in control of their own lives, collectively, not individually.

02:49The people, the working class, in charge of their history, of their daily life,

02:56of their economy, that is basically what the commune is.

03:01And these consults are an exercise that helps us go in that direction.

03:08The walls of El Panal speak of a history of struggle and a clear horizon for the future.

03:13The consolidation of popular power and the creative capacity of the inhabitants

03:18to transform their own territory.

03:21In this sense, the public consultations are a step

03:24farther on the road to this dignified and sobering destiny.

03:30Because here they do not come to do what others think is convenient for us,

03:33or what they think we need.

03:35We have a plan, and that work plan is called a concrete agenda of action,

03:39what we want in the short, medium and long term.

03:42On February 2, the people come out, they wake up very early to go out to vote, to choose.

03:48We get the results and then this government, this communal government,

03:51this new government of the communes, goes out and carries out these projects,

03:55executes them financially and with its qualified labor force, because we have that force.

04:04De la Sur, Caracas, Venezuela.

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