Venezuela: President Maduro meets international observers on the eve of presidential elections

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00:00Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro holds a meeting with international observers on

00:04the eve of the upcoming presidential elections.

00:09Right now we're waiting for images to go live to Venezuela to Caracas as the Venezuelan

00:14President is holding a meeting with international observers prior to the election day that is

00:19about to begin on Sunday, July 28th, a key electoral moment for the nation that will

00:24see a new election ahead with over ten candidates running for the presidency, nine of them running

00:32for the opposition and Nicolás Maduro representing the great patriotic poll, representing the

00:37people of Venezuela and the PSUV party.

00:41So we are waiting to have the images to go live to Venezuela, there we are, we are live

00:46in Caracas as the President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro is meeting with the international observers

00:54over 600 international observers travel to Caracas to visit, to witness and see the development

01:02of the electoral process that will begin hours from now, less than 12 hours from now, Venezuela

01:10will go to the polls to choose their next president, as we were saying there are over

01:16ten candidates, over 21 million people will go to the polls, are called to go to the polls

01:22to elect the next president of the nation, this is a key moment for the nation and there

01:26has been lots of campaigns ahead as we arrive to this nation, western media has had a campaign

01:34of discrediting the electoral system but the electoral system authorities of the National

01:38Electoral Council have come out and have shown all the timetable how they fulfill with all

01:43the pertinent activities that they had to carry out with auditing of the electoral machines,

01:49with everything that had to be to guarantee a secure and transparent electoral process

01:55that is about to begin in less than 12 hours in Venezuela on July 28th, as the nation over

02:0121 million Venezuelans will go to the polls in the territory and the people abroad Venezuela

02:07have been voting for some days now as they will elect their next president, these are

02:12live images as the Venezuelan president is receiving a delegation of the international

02:18observers that will participate in the Sunday's presidential election and will testify, will

02:25be seeing how these elections develop.

02:31Just on Thursday the authorities launched the Plan Republica, this is the plan that

02:38has been staged as a tradition now, every electoral day is the plan that will ensure

02:46security in the nation as the voters go to the polls, earlier today in the news it was

02:56known that a group of saboteurs were arrested by the authorities who intended to attack

03:01the electric system, the electric system of the nation as it was preparing for the election

03:08but right now we are live in Caracas, we are live in Venezuela as the president Nicolás

03:13Maduro meets with international observers as we were reporting over 600 international

03:19accredited international observers travel to Venezuela to accompany this electoral process

03:25as Venezuelans choose tomorrow, Sunday July 28th, their next president out of 10 candidates

03:32they are running for the presidency of the nation.

03:37In terms of the context that Venezuela arrived to this nation, of the 10 candidates, 8 have

03:42signed a pact, have signed a document saying that they will recognize the electoral result

03:50of Sunday's voting day, only 2 out of the 10 candidates did not sign to form the more

03:57radical opposition of Venezuela.

04:02We must remember that Venezuela has a very secure electoral voting system, it has been

04:09praised by many experts that are today in that room meeting with the Venezuelan president

04:14as one of the best in the world, probably the best in Latin America.

04:20It is known as the horseshoe system and it is very effective and quick as the polling

04:25station is set in a U-shape where the voters, once they arrive there they go around and

04:33they do the whole process very quickly, in less than a minute they are out and it is

04:37all done electronically and when the voting day is over the tally of the votes are counted

04:45electronically as they cast the vote and then after the voting ends they just have to compare

04:51to see the number of people that went to the polls corresponds to what the machines register.

04:56In Venezuela there is no second round, there is no second round, eventually whatever the

05:03result is tomorrow is the final result, it doesn't matter the distance, it doesn't matter

05:08the turnout, it is expected to be high, there is only one day of voting, there is only one

05:14moment, and tomorrow Venezuela will know its future president for the next 5 years.

05:22As we were saying the current president Nicolas Maduro is at this meeting gathering with over

05:29600 international observers that have arrived to accompany the electoral process that is

05:35about to begin in just hours from now in Venezuela and the National Electoral Council said that

05:41the polling stations almost in its totality have all been installed and everything is

05:47ready for Sunday's elections to begin.

05:54It seems the meeting is about to begin, we will probably have statements from the president

06:01of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro and we'll be here to listen to what the president has to say.

06:06Right now the guests are enjoying traditional music and as we are ready for the words of

06:16the president of Venezuela.

06:20As before the presidential election begins on Sunday July 28th.

06:29Let's listen to the president.

06:50We just saw the best of our artists.

07:02I didn't know you were here, you would be here and that you would be singing.

07:12I want to greet all the people invited, all the international observers.

07:21Over 910 international guests.

07:35I was looking forward to this meeting, you have had many meetings across the country

07:40with different political parties, the candidates of these parties.

07:51910 foreign guests and observers legally invited by the Electoral Council.

08:07You come in from over 100 countries, it's a huge event, a worldwide event.

08:15Elections in Venezuela.

08:26I think the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games would actually start on the

08:3329th of July because Venezuela is the hot topic so far.

08:39It was good to start with some Venezuelan music.

08:47Venezuela is a country with a marvelous history like all the countries in the world.

09:00We are very proud and women are very proud of the history of this place.

09:09At the north of South America, this is a Caribbean country, an Indian country, an Atlantic country,

09:20an Amazon country.

09:25We were listening to statements from the Venezuelan president as he was gathering, he was meeting

09:33the international observers that will be participating tomorrow, Sunday, July 28th, on the presidential

09:40elections that are going to be held in Venezuela.

09:42We'll be right back in upcoming news briefs.

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