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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