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Venezuela: 12 hours to collect 4.2 million signatures against Maduro

2022-01-22T03:43:55.336Z


The electoral authority of Venezuela has given 12 hours next Wednesday to the promoters of a recall referendum against President Nicolás...


Venezuela's electoral authority has given promoters of a recall referendum against President Nicolás Maduro 12 hours next Wednesday to collect the more than 4.2 million signatures needed to organize such a consultation.

The collection of signatures will be organized

“on January 26, between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., in 1,200 centers”

across the country, announced Friday evening January 21 the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Twitter.

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The opposition organizations, which on Monday launched the procedure for a recall referendum against the mandate of the socialist president (2019-2025), will have to collect a number of signatures equivalent to 20% of the voters registered in Caracas and in each of the 23 states of the country, i.e. a total of more than 4.2 million signatures out of 20.9 million voters.

If a single region does not reach the 20% mark, the whole procedure will be cancelled.

“What are you afraid of, Maduro?

You do not even authorize a few signatures (...) The dictatorship does not even take care of the form”

, was indignant on Twitter the leader of the opposition Juan Guaidó.

“It's a farce to announce (...) 1,200 collection centers so that 20 million citizens can exercise their rights.

It's like putting 1,000 liters of water in a 5-liter container

,” criticized César Pérez Vivas, one of the promoters of the referendum against Maduro.

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The Venezuelan opposition has already tried unsuccessfully in 2016 to demand a recall referendum against the first term of Nicolás Maduro (2013-2019).

He was re-elected in 2018 in a ballot described as

"fraud"

by his opponents and rejected by the United States, the European Union and several Latin American countries.

Source: lefigaro

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