Venezuelans abroad remain uncertain due to the little information from the National Electoral Council (CNE) about the process to register and vote in the presidential elections. A Venezuelan group in Argentina denounced this Monday that the Nicolás Maduro regime did not comply with opening the process when going to the headquarters of its embassy in Buenos Aires.
“We want to register, it is our right!” claimed the Venezuelans gathered at the door of the embassy, according to what the Venezuelans spread on social networks, after being informed that the registry abroad will not open until further notice.
The first secretary of the embassy in Buenos Aires, Néstor Ocando, told the migrants that the CNE machine to carry out this process has not yet arrived from Venezuela and that when it arrives in Buenos Aires it would “be informed,” EFE reported.
Although the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that the special operation would begin this Monday in all consular headquarters, this was not fulfilled in Argentina or Spain.
“This human right, every minute that passes, is being violated,” one of the citizens replied to Ocando.
At the Venezuelan consular offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, the Canary Islands and Vigo, Venezuelans were informed that the process could not yet begin because the machines from the National Electoral Council (CNE) had not arrived.
The head of María Corina Machado’s campaign command in Argentina, Adriana Flores, assured that this is “in violation of the schedule that the CNE itself had established,” according to the statement released by the migrants.
«We have people from different places in the interior of Argentina who have lost their day of work to travel to Buenos Aires to register, and they have not been able to exercise this right. They do not give us an answer or certain information about when we will be able to start this process,” Flores denounced.
The general secretary of the Argentine Forum for Democracy in the Region (Fader), Elisa Trotta, explained that of the more than 220 thousand Venezuelans who live in Argentina, only about 2 thousand are registered to vote.
«Since 2018, the CNE has not allowed the Electoral Registry to be updated abroad, violating our right to participate in the decision-making of our country. We Venezuelans want to vote in free elections to recover our democracy, and Maduro blocks this possibility with his arbitrariness. The international community must not remain silent in the face of these abuses,” said the former ambassador to Argentina of Juan Guaidó’s interim government in the same statement.
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