"Today Venezuela is showing the world what a true democracy is all about"

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Statements made by the Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello after having exercised his vote in the regional and legislative elections of this May 25 in Venezuela. teleSUR

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00:00The Vice President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela is saying, after exercising, his right to vote. Let's listen.

00:10Despite of the rain, people are voting peacefully.

00:17Despite the rain, there is calm.

00:21Everyone has the right patience.

00:25We have been through some polling stations.

00:30So after all, regardless of the rain, there is peace, tranquility.

00:36There is absolute peace, tranquility.

00:41Venezuelans have enough patience.

00:44We have toured several voting stations.

00:48There are a lot of people voting.

00:53So the voting should end in the evening, when the National Election Council gives out numbers, including the Guayana Ezequiva.

01:12This is a big achievement for our country.

01:18Every year, every time there is an election, people go out.

01:23There are awful contrary campaigns.

01:30A little while, we saw some images of a region where people have to go on a boat.

01:42And the same happens in other locations, like Tachira.

01:50But there will be nothing interfering with this election.

01:54There is no way to stop it.

01:57Look at how many people around.

02:00There is around here in this voting station.

02:03Just one voting station.

02:06And even though it's raining, there's people outside waiting in line.

02:12They came to express their will as the Constitution provides the opportunity.

02:24There are no shortcuts in this country.

02:30It's been 32 times that we have hosted elections and peaceful elections.

02:37So this is the 32nd election in 26 years.

02:42And many more will come.

02:45We have had public consultations that we do from time to time for budgets of communities.

02:55This is an expression of true democracy, not the old representative democracy.

03:03This is a democracy of the people, people going directly to vote, to express their opinion.

03:10This is a people with a will to exert their power.

03:19We've always had good, massive turnout.

03:29People vote and people decide for themselves.

03:33It's a simple process.

03:35Those who say that there are no people at voting stations, well, they should take another look.

03:48People are voting and they are not being pressured to vote.

03:52No one is forced to vote.

03:54People do it out of their own willingness.

03:58And how is the procedure?

04:00It's a very fast procedure.

04:03Every time we make it easier.

04:05The minute they take your fingerprint, everything follows through.

04:17Everything that follows through goes very quickly.

04:19You said so many people have been detained.

04:24Among them, some of them foreigners.

04:29Do you know anything about that?

04:31Well, we wish we hadn't had any mercenaries coming.

04:37But not even that has stopped this process.

04:43Because we have a military-popular fusion.

04:48The people know what's going on.

04:52People know when someone is in a hotel and they are staying for three days as they do not know even anywhere in Spanish.

05:03So we are guaranteeing peaceful in the country.

05:06Peace in the country.

05:09The country is peaceful from one end to the other.

05:15There is not even one area where there is trouble.

05:19The only thing we are having is a little bit of rain.

05:22People are turning out in a civic demonstration.

05:30Yes, this is not just...

05:32This is not a forced voting.

05:34This is...

05:35People go to vote convinced that they want to nominate certain candidates.

05:44When you're voting, you're voting against terrorism and fascism in favor of peace and sovereignty and tranquility.

05:53It's a very conscious vote.

05:55You have mentioned some of the things regarding the government in the Ezequiva region.

06:07There's no problem.

06:09We've only had rain in several states.

06:14But people know how to overcome all those difficulties.

06:20You know, the rain.

06:30But we are choosing governors in an area where there is no governor.

06:35In the Ezequiva region.

06:37It will be the first governor.

06:44And this 25th day of May 20,025.

06:48That's a historic date.

06:56We heard that the Guiana authorities forbid Venezuelan residents to go to vote.

07:03Or they will be deported.

07:05So, who is paying salaries in Guiana?

07:07Epson Mobile.

07:08There are employees of Epson Mobile.

07:12The company could expel people from their company.

07:16But we heard that one person had been detained in Guiana because that person had expressed the fact that that territory belongs to Venezuela.

07:30We have nothing against the people of Guiana.

07:37But the Ezequivo part is a part of Venezuela.

07:42And it belongs to Venezuela.

07:44There's no doubt about it.

07:46And today, we're choosing a governor for that region.

07:49And today, we're choosing a governor for that region.

07:53The electoral process is rolling in perfect tranquility and peace.

08:01Some people were astonished at how wonderful Venezuela is because we have so many mango trees, for instance.

08:20And in certain areas, one mango is $6.

08:23There's no doubt that Venezuela today is given a true demonstration of what democracy is.

08:32You said that some tourist plots were being forged from Colombia.

08:42The government of Colombia.

08:45The strategy is planned by Uribe.

08:49And now they also have now support from Ecuador.

08:56But the most important thing about that, they have not been able to succeed here in Venezuela with all their plots.

09:08We are having a peaceful election.

09:12And whomever hasn't voted yet, please do.

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