In Venezuela, citizens go to the polls on a historic election's day, over 21 million people are called to elect their local authorities, and for the first time, the nation holds the national youth consultation. Let's go live with our correspondent in Caracas Bruno Falci for more details.
00:00In Venezuela citizens go to the polls on a historic election day. Over 21 million are called to elect their local authorities and for the first time the nation holds the national youth consultation. Let's go live with our correspondent in Caracas, Bruno Fassi, for more details. Welcome Bruno. What can you tell us these early hours?
00:30Hello, my name is Bruno Fassi. I'm here now in a school in La Guayra, a city next to the capital Caracas, where people are voting in an important process that has happened today in all Venezuela, where they're going to elect 335 mayors.
01:00And 2,471 councils in this municipal election. It's important to say that 36 political parties are participating in this election, where 13 are for the government and 23 from the opposition,
01:18in a clash again, in a democratic and peaceful clash again, with Bolivarian force and opposition. 21 million persons are listed to vote today, all the day they're going to vote.
01:34At the same time, it's happened in the election for the young people. The first popular consultation of the young gets a characteristic, a unique characteristic of the Venezuelan democracy,
01:48a participative republic and democratic process where the people have the power in their hands.
01:56These young people are going to vote for projects. There are more than 37,000 projects in all the country, in every community. There are more than 5,338 communities, popular councils, communes,
02:14that organize this vote. They're going to elect a project in each of these communes to develop their rights and the situation of life of the young people in these territories.
02:30As you can see, as you can see, as you can see, as you can see, as you can see, everything is happening peacefully, calmly, and people are voting in electronic machines.
02:42And after they vote in these electronic machines, they put their votes, they sign a paper, and they put their vote in a box.
02:51And everything is very organized. Another peaceful process of democratic participative in Venezuela. Keep following us to know more about this historical process that are living in this country.
03:08My name is Bruno Fauci, and we go back now to the studio in Laban.
