Maduro calls for national consultation on communal projects for August 25

The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, called for new national consultation elections on August 25 to vote for the projects that the 4500 communal circuits prioritize. “Democracy, elections, People’s Power,” he asserted.

During the National meeting with Community Members, which took place at the Bicentennial Fair Complex of Barquisimeto, Lara state, the head of State instructed the Executive Vice President of the Republic Delcy Rodríguez to lower resources for the implementation of plans designed by the communities.

“I made a commitment, and to the community whose project is chosen by popular vote, I will finance the project that came in second place, immediately,” he declared.

He specified that there are already 220 communities that have completed their first project, so he called: “Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, proceed to deposit the money for the second project to those 220 communities.”

The national leader highlighted that the National Popular Consultation represented the first advance and stated that it will accelerate the financing process of the secondary projects proposed in the communities, immediately.

He ordered the elaboration of a better definition of the existing communal circuits, with which the consultation system of these instances is perfected. “Let them adapt to the grassroots community councils,” he advised.

He ratified that “we are in a process to accelerate changes and transformations in the country,” and in that sense – he recalled – the most important of all the approaches have to come from the People’s Power.

“Here we are, in the first National Assembly of all the communal councils and communes throughout the country,” he said.

At the meeting, Maduro recalled the experience of the El Maizal Commune, in the Simón Planas municipality, on June 8, 2024, for which the líder Bolivarian congratulated the work carried out by the Minister for Communes and Social Movements, Ángel Prado, in recent days. “He is the People of Power forever,” he stressed.

For his part, the Minister for Communes and Social Movements, Ángel Prado, reported that with resources designated for the Villa San José Bolívar Commune, located west of Barquisimeto, the reactivation of an aqueduct was achieved that “will give water to more than seven hundred families” in a “work that was carried out by self-management and self-construction.”

Prado indicated that more than 1 communal councils in Venezuela participate in the 4st National Meeting of Communal Circuits.

On the other hand, Maduro highlighted the trust that must always be felt in the people when responding to all situations that arise in the communities, which is why he asserted that “the people can do anything, they are our strength, our life and inspiration.”

This initiative emanating from both the Popular Power and the Communal Power, is described by the head of State as the “only formula there is”, to prevent Venezuela from being dominated by a “system of savage capitalism” and “regressing towards a democracy.” of oligarchic elites and minorities.” Consequently, these actions will allow the country to “move towards a direct democracy where the people have power.”

Inauguration of works

In the activity, President Maduro announced that next week he will inaugurate the aqueduct work built by the Villas de San José Bolívar Commune, west of Barquisimeto, specifically in the Ana Soto parish. “I want to come next week to inaugurate that project,” he said.

Plans for the communities

In economic matters, with the aim of promoting productive projects and the new economy in the communes, the Dignitary instructed the Minister for Communes and Social Movements, Ángel Prado, to immediately activate the Communal Economy tables which will have a new National structure .

“(…) in these economic tables we are going to place plans to produce food, communal tourism development plans, plans to activate the registration of communal companies, to reactivate socially owned companies. Economy was the great dream of Commander Hugo Chávez, the productive Commune as the axis of the new diversified economy model,” he explained.

For the area of ​​roads, he ordered Minister Prado and the vice president of Communal Councils and Communes of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Jorge Arreaza, that by Monday, July 8, “they have formed a new and powerful commission communal national for agricultural roads, to then give you the asphalt, the machinery and the resources to see if we achieve the objective of fixing agricultural life,” he pointed out, reports Presidential Press.

Likewise, he told the Minister of Popular Power for Health, Magaly Gutiérrez, to immediately carry out “a special communal plan to pay the surgical debt. Commune by commune, with our people. “Community health.”

When reminding the people of the achievement of 5 million homes, the head of state invited the community members to work together for the new goal of building 3 million homes.

“We are going to build three million new homes together, I am counting on you (…). You have to tell me the plan, the terrain, the family that really needs it. Without managers, without intermediaries. Maduro and the people, the people and Maduro,” she stressed.

Previously, President Maduro called to update the communal governments, so that “each of the 4 communal circuits are assumed as self-government of the people, self-government of the bases, self-government of the communes.”

Along these lines, he reported that the Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, is “working on engineering for us to accelerate the process of transfer of power and to be able to finance and support them directly, which I know, that the money that reaches the people yields, “it multiplies,” he detailed.

Claim to peasants and community members

From the Barquisimeto Bicentennial Fair complex, the President, following complaints regarding the withdrawal of machinery from farmers and community members, by the Fund for Socialist Agrarian Development (FONDAS), instructed the Executive Vice President to call the organization so that ” “Stop the process of taking away machinery from the peasants, and hand over the machinery to the peasants and community members as property.”