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Venezuela, 1st National Public Consultation of 2025 continues
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2/2/2025
The popular consultation on February 2 is also part of the strategy promoted by President Nicolás Maduro to empower the Venezuelan population. teleSUR
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Before we take the topic off Venezuela, let's go live to Caracas with our correspondent
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Belén de los Santos for the details on how this first public consultation is going on
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in the whole country.
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Belén, welcome back to From the South.
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What can you tell us?
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Hello, Luis.
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Exactly as you were saying, we are right here in Caracas, we are at the El Paraíso Parish
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in the western part of the city, and as you were just saying, the consultation, the public
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consultation is still underway, they are actually voting right behind me, if you can see it
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across the street, this is one of the schools of this communal circuit in which the neighbors
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are coming here to vote, and we have been telling you throughout the day a little bit
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more about this experience, not just the numbers that you went over before we started this
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conversation, but also really what is happening in one of these communes and what is this
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public consultation for.
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So let me tell you a little bit about this parish in El Paraíso that we're here, this
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communal circuit, for example, in the past public consultations, they voted on a project
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to finance the repairment of different elevators in the different buildings of the community.
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Let's keep in mind that this is a community that has a lot of elderly people and a lot
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of very tall buildings and that when an elevator is not working, for example, this harshly
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affects the day-to-day life of the community.
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So the neighbors decided to put that funding on that repairment and actually over 14 elevators
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have been repaired in the past month with this funding from last year.
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Also that project, the continuing of that project is also up for voting today in this
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third consultation since this consultation began.
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Also other projects have to do with other sort of repairments like water supply, also
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the repair works on the streets, lighting.
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So every communal circuit has its different priorities, but the important thing is that
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they are all coming here to vote and to decide on this project.
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One of the things that we were talking about had to do with that, the willingness and the
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idea that this tool, the public consultation, is giving them the opportunity to decide on
02:28
what is best for their territory.
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Almost 1 p.m. over there in Caracas, how has the turnout been?
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Do you believe that the turnout is being representative of the people's will, that they want to be
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part of this new way of government of decision-making by giving the decision power to the people
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right there in these consultations?
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So, exactly as you were saying, you know that we have been here throughout Caracas at different
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neighborhoods since very early in the morning.
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It's past noon already and the turnout is very significant in many of the schools.
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I don't know if you can see the line from here, but we have like one block of line that
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has been constant for the past 40 minutes that we have been here and the people keep
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on coming and the line is moving.
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So, some of the neighbors and also the leaders of the communal circuit were telling us that
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they were very impressed and also very happy about the participation.
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And also one important thing to keep in mind that I wanted to share with you and our audience
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is that they are highlighting the importance of this participation tool as a means to also
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overcome, for example, the political polarization and that the participation has to do not with
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a political affiliation, but just with the willingness to come together and decide on
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concrete issues regarding each territory.
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And that is very important and that is one of the key also elements and objectives of
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the tool such as this public consultation.
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So, that has been a very positive turnout in this sense.
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Thank you, Belén.
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We're going to stay in touch for upcoming news brief to keep updated on everything that
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is happening this important day for the Venezuelan people.
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