From Caracas our special envoy Yunus Soner updates us on the social and political panorama in Venezuela with only 10 days left until the presidential elections. teleSUR
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00:00And the electoral campaign is underway ahead on July the 28th presidential election
00:05So we go live to our special envoy Juno Sonner in Caracas to bring us the latest city news
00:15Hello, good morning and a warm welcome to all viewers of Telesur English
00:20I'm right now here in the eastern part of Caracas in the municipality of
00:25Sucre and as you can see behind me, there are posters
00:30That already indicate the start the heating up of the election campaign
00:34here we see the candidate of Nicolás Maduro the current president and candidate for re-election of the
00:42great patriotic pole Nicolás Maduro has
00:45Continued its activities in the campaign yesterday
00:49he met with thousands of workers of the Bolivarian Socialist Trade Union in the
00:55Monumental stadium of SimĂłn BolĂvar here in Caracas where he proposed to introduce a special
01:02anti-blockade law for the working class that includes the construction of three million new houses the
01:09introduction of easy accessible credits and the widening of digital health
01:16systems for the working class later on the president also visited the state of Lara and
01:22gathered here and met here with a huge crowd of people today the president will meet the
01:29representatives of small business
01:32Owners, so he's like kind of conducting meetings with all different
01:37Let's say popular in Spanish
01:40People's
01:41Societies sectors that are productive here in Venezuela the oppositional candidates meanwhile are also conducting
01:49Activities they are also holding
01:51meetings and rallies
01:53What is noteworthy is that Edmundo González the candidate of the extreme right has invited?
02:01representatives of the party the popular the extreme right-wing party of Spain to watch over the elections on July
02:0828 this was a move was a very harshly criticized by the
02:14Vice minister for anti-blockade policies William Costello who called this invitation
02:21outside of law because
02:23Costello stated only the central the National Election Council has the authority and the legitimacy to invite
02:32international
02:34Watchers to watch over the elections, so this is today's
02:38Second debate the attempt of the extreme right to include the Spanish extreme right
02:44illegally into the Venezuelan elections today more
02:49Rallies are expected on both sides also of president Maduro, but details have to be announced yet
02:55We are keeping our eye on what's going on in the election campaign here in Caracas and the rest of the country from here a
03:02Warm welcome to our viewers again
03:05Well, thank you very much for your remark. Oh, we were listening to our special envoy
03:10You know sonar live from Caracas who is a following all the information ahead of the upcoming presidential election