Venezuela: Thousands rallied in support of Maduro on 1st day of presidential campaign
The first day of the presidential campaign in Venezuela closed thursday with thousands of president Maduro's supporters rallying to Central Plaza behind Miraflores Palace. Our special envoy Brian Mier with more. teleSUR
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00:00The first day of the presidential campaign in Venezuela closed Thursday
00:04with thousands of President Maduro's supporters rallying into Central Plaza
00:08behind Miraflores Palace. Our special envoy, Brian Meyer, with more.
00:14I'm in downtown Caracas, where after the first day of the official presidential campaign of 2024
00:20began to come to an end, the entire crowd of Nicolas Maduro supporters
00:25has congregated on the Central Plaza behind Miraflores Palace
00:30at the last minute, joined by a huge motorcade of cyclists
00:35who've arrived making a lot of noise to show their support for Maduro in this year's election.
00:42The march from the west side of the city on Sucre Plaza to downtown took over three hours.
00:47Both sides of a major avenue were closed as tens of thousands of people
00:52marched, walked, danced and sang their way down the street.
00:57A crowd made up almost entirely of working class Venezuelans.
01:01And this is just day one of the campaign which is going to go on until July 25th
01:07with the election day marked for what would have been Hugo Chavez's 70th anniversary on July 28th.
01:16This is the 31st election that's been held in Venezuela since the democratic revolution of 1999
01:24and Nicolas Maduro's PSUV, National Socialist Union Party,
01:30has made a major show of strength here on the streets of Caracas.