Guaidó Accuses Maduro Of Preventing Signature Collection For Recall Referendum

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CNE, órgão responsável pela realização de eleições na Venezuela, permitiu apenas um dia de recolhimento de assinaturas para referendo revogatório.

CNE, the body responsible for holding elections in Venezuela, allowed only one day to collect signatures for the recall referendum .| Photo: EFE/Miguel Gutiérrez

The interim president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, accused this Friday of the dictator Nicolás Maduro’s refusal to allow citizens to collect signatures to activate a referendum to revoke the presidency’s mandate. “What is Maduro afraid of? It won’t even allow signatures with a CNE [Conselho Nacional Eleitoral] hijacked by you. You are weaker than anyone believes. The dictatorship does not take care of form, it is evident, it is a minority and continues to steal the vote,” Guaidó said on Twitter.
The CNE has scheduled for the next Wednesday, 19 of January, the day when citizens will be able to collect enough signatures – corresponding to 17% of the electorate in each state – to activate the referendum. The entity informed that 1,200 voting centers will also be created throughout the country, taking into account the “electoral weight of each federal entity in the country”.

According to the CNE, the electoral registration that will be used to validate this signature collection process will be the same as approved for the regional and local elections of 12 of November last year, with 13.660.768 eligible voters. “In order to fulfill the requirement to activate the presidential recall referendum, 17% of electoral registration must be achieved, as established by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) in 987″, added.

César Pérez Vivas, one of the promoters of the recall referendum campaign, criticized the timetable released by the CNE for this process. “It is a joke to announce today, for next Wednesday, the opening of 1,200 centers so that 10 millions of citizens can exercise their right to vote. This is like putting a thousand liters of water in a five-liter container”, he complained on Twitter.

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