For the first time in Venezuelan elections, Guayana Esequiba participates in elections. From that region, correspondent Bruno Falci updates us on the importance of these elections. teleSUR
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00:00As the elections continue, let's go to Guayana Ezequiva. Our correspondent Bruno Falsi is there on location with the information as these early hours of this legislative and regional elections kick off in Venezuela.
00:14Hello, my name is Bruno Falsi from Telesur.
00:17We are here in Juruari, a school in Guayana Ezequiva where the election of 25 of May for the first time is going to happen for the governance of this new state of Guayana Ezequiva, the 24th state of Venezuela after a plebiscite in 2023 where they decide to create this new state.
00:41The people voted, 95% of the people voted to create this new state. Today, they are voting in peace, completely peace. As you can see, everything is happening completely fine.
00:54And they will vote for a governor, seven representatives in the national assembly and eight local legislators.
01:02And as you can see, many people is coming to vote. There are 21,000 people who's going to vote today in this region, in this new region, who have been in many discussion, international discussion about who is the owner of this territory.
01:23As it happens, Venezuela has the right of this territory because it has been, since the independence, it has been their right to dictate this territory by many international law.
01:42There is going to happen to international, in all the countries, it's happened in this election where it's going to elect 24 governors, 285 in the, in the assembly of Venezuela, the national assembly, going to elect 285 and renew their representative and 260 legislators.
02:10So, as you can see, as you can see, you can go in the center of rotation. Everyone is voting in electronic. It's an electronic, very fast. You vote in the machine. After that, like this, this mister. After that, you sign the paper and you vote again in the box.
02:35Here people can see their name in the list. So they can check where they're going to vote. As you can see, this, this miss is checking where is her table.
02:50He's the table. He's the table number three. In the wall, you can see table number three, three. Everything is very organized by the National Electoral Council. And there is, in the city, Eldorado. We are in Eldorado. A small city in Guiana is a cable.
03:10And there is three center like this, three schools. And keep following us in Telesur in English to know more about this historical process of Venezuela in Guiana is a cable in the creation of this new state.
03:26As you can see, people will keep coming and voting. And in some hours, we're going to come back again.