00:00Let's go live to Caracas once more, this time with our special MVP in Venezuela, Junus Zuner,
00:05who is at this moment in Petare at the Dr. José de Jesús Arrocha Educational Unit Voting Center.
00:11Hello, Junus, tell us where are you and what are the latest news?
00:19Hello, good afternoon from here, Petare, José de Jesús Arrocha High School, the voting center,
00:28main voting center in Petare with more than 8,000 citizens registered, and this center,
00:34as I have gotten confirmed, has been closed right now. So the president of the election center here
00:43has gathered minutes ago all the chairmen of the different election tables, eight of them,
00:51and has held the ceremony, and now they are closing the tables, so they are
01:00cancelling, they are auditing the machines. We can watch this, I think, so it's done behind the
01:10behind the cartoon there. As you see, there is a representative of an oppositional party here
01:21as well present, looking and checking, so this center has been closed, and I'm hearing that
01:28over all the country, all centers are being closed, except when there's a queue outside
01:34still waiting to vote, then in those centers there is an exemption made, but generally,
01:44I received the confirmation from the representatives of the National Electoral Council
01:50here in this center that the election has finalized. The presidential elections of
02:00the Republic of Venezuela of July 28 have been finished,
02:06now the papers are arranged, the data is being transferred.
02:14We were about to make an interview with the representatives, but they said it's legally
02:19not possible, so we refrained from that. We just show you that all representatives are here
02:26checking the data, checking the documents, and sending the data also to the National Electoral
02:33Council. Final comparisons are being made, the machines are being slowly taken down,
02:41so I can from here, Petare, confirm that the elections in Venezuela have finished,
02:49with possible exceptions in those election centers where there's still a queue outside,
02:56because this is what the law says, this is what the constitution says, that any citizen has the
03:01right to vote, and if he comes late and has to wait outside the election center, then the election
03:09center will admit his entry, and admit that he casts his vote, but generally speaking,
03:17the elections of July 28 for the presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela are finished.
03:26Thank you, Yunus, we'll come back to you throughout.
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