00:00And as Venezuelan citizens head to the polls on Sunday, we go now to our correspondent, Bruno Falsi, who is in La Guaira State, with more details on how the election day is unfolding in the state. Let's see. Hello, Bruno. What can you share with us?
00:14Hello. We are still here in the school Republic of Panama, in the city of La Guaira, in Venezuela, where in this important day, it happened two elections at the same time.
00:33The first one is the mayor's election, the municipal election, where they're going to elect 335 mayors and 2,471 consuls.
00:45As you can see, everything is happening smoothly. People are voting. First, they put their vote in this table, and then this lady is going to vote in the electronic machine.
01:06It's very fast, very practical, and very secure in this secret election, where the vote is secret. No one knows who they're going to vote.
01:18After she votes, she's going to put their vote in this box to vote two times, to be sure that her vote is going to be respected.
01:31As you can see, she's going to do this exactly now. And it's an important election, too, for the young people, where they're going to vote for their project in more than 5,338 communes.
01:50After that, she signed the paper with her documents to not repeat the vote. The people here vote only one time, and it's ensured, this is ensured by the signature in this list.
02:05As I was saying, the other votation that is very important in the historical process, that makes this process historical, is the first popular consultation for the young people, for the young people, where they're going to vote for more than 37,000 projects in all the country, in their communities.
02:30In Venezuela, they have an experience of participative democracy, and the popular power, where the people in their neighborhoods exert their power direct.
02:44In this rotation, they're going to choose between seven projects, each one of these 5,000 communes, and they're going to choose two of these projects to be financed by the state.
02:59And in total, in total, in this election, the municipal election, the Chavis and opposition are making a new fight for the power, a peaceful fight, where everything passing completely peacefully, between the 13 parties from the government and the 23 parties from the opposition.
03:24In all day, people have come, a lot of people have come, a lot of people have come here to vote, with a high participation of the Venezuelan citizens, where here in Venezuela, the vote is not obligatory.
03:39And so, keep following us, because the election is going to go until the night, until the last elector is in the line, and we are going to follow them until these last minutes.
03:56Here, Bruno Fauci, from Venezuela, and we go back now to the studio in La Habana.
