The Great Patriotic Pole of Venezuela held popular assemblies in communities throughout the country

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00:00This Saturday, the Great Patriotic Poll of Venezuela held popular assemblies in communities throughout the country

00:05so that militants could nominate their candidates for the municipal elections on July 27th.

00:10Our correspondent, Chad Afo, has more details in the following report.

00:1824 hours to mobilize the grassroots members of the Great Patriotic Poll

00:22and submit their nominations for consulars and mayor.

00:25Throughout Venezuela, the challenge was great for community leaders.

00:28And in Caracas, it was made even greater by the rainy weather that day.

00:33But in the Primero de Mayo community, in the Liberador Municipality, the residents were prepared and responded to the call.

00:41All communities are equal. All communities are ready and willing.

00:45We are defending the revolutionary process with all our strength, preserving peace in our country, of course,

00:50and giving the people who are the protagonists of all this a voice.

00:54As assemblies, the residents of each communal council freely propose their candidates,

01:04with no limit on the number of nominations, until everyone feels that the list is satisfactory.

01:09Most of the names suggested for consulars are people from the community itself,

01:13who have distinguished themselves for their dedication and commitment to the people.

01:17The ones I appoint are people from the community who have fought hard in the revolution,

01:25and we choose them because they have helped the community a lot.

01:30Real politics, of walking and knowing what our community needs, just as what street leaders do,

01:38is what the territorial leaders and the entire political team do,

01:41because we are based on working hard to meet the needs of the people.

01:44This popular participation from the very first step of the electoral process,

01:53and not just on the election day,

01:54is a distinctive feature of the Venezuelan democracy inherited from the revolutionary principles.

02:01I believe that one of the processes that the Great Patriotic Poll has improved

02:05is this one, the nomination process,

02:08and that it is the crash of the teams who nominate the candidates,

02:11since previously, it was, let's vote for this person, now we ourselves.

02:16The grassroots teams, those of us who come from territories,

02:21nominate the people we believe are suitable to be our candidates at the national level.

02:25In Venezuela's 335 municipalities,

02:34organized communities will have until Sunday to hold their assemblies.

02:38In the coming days, an internal party process will decide from among the nominations submitted

02:42who will be the final candidates for the mayor and council elections,

02:46scheduled for July 27 of this year.

02:48Chad Afol, desde Caracas, Venezuela, para Telesur.

02:54Now we have our first ride coming up. Remember to join us.

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