At 7:00 local time (8:00 Argentina time), the 346 voting centers authorized at the national level, under the custody of the Plan República, opened their doors, as established in the schedule of the National Electoral Council (CNE).
On the outskirts of some of them, such as the Andrés Bello high school in Caracas, voters were already lining up to participate in the test that will allow them to test the different phases of the operation of the Venezuelan electoral system.
According to the schedule of the electoral body, the trial, which will have 1,386 polling stations in the 33 municipalities of the 23 states of Venezuela, It must end at 4:00 p.m. local time (5:00 p.m. Argentine time).
The event will be accompanied by the electoral mission of the Council of Electoral Experts of Latin America (CEELA) and also with three members of the Carter Center, who are in the country on an exploratory mission to evaluate their availability to attend the upcoming elections as observers.
The November 21 elections will be attended, for the first time since 2017, by the bulk of the Venezuelan opposition, including the sector it leads Juan Guaidó, after requesting abstention in the 2018 presidential elections, in which he was re-elected Nicolas Maduro, and the legislative elections of 2020, in which Chavismo obtained 92% of the deputies.
Both processes were considered by the opposition as “fraud” because they did not have the minimum electoral guarantees, and were unknown to a large part of the international community.
In the upcoming November elections, Venezuelans will elect governors, mayors, councilors and legislators from the 23 states.
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