Venezuela’s election centers began opening their doors this Sunday after 06:00 local time (10:00 GMT) and began receiving voters participating in the presidential election, for which one day Over 21 million people have been called to vote,
As established by the National Electoral Council (CNE), many of these 15,767 authorized centers For this process they opened at the scheduled time, while waiting for the first reports from the election officials to know the initial percentages as well as the first incidents.
Through social networks, Venezuelans have reported long lines outside voting centers in several areas in the interior of the country, with voters queuing since Saturday night in some of them.
Regulations establish that polling stations will be open uninterrupted for 12 hours, and will remain operational as long as there are voters in line.
Maduro and Gonzalez to contest Venezuela presidential election
In a completely digitised voting process, a total of ten candidates including the current President will appear in the electoral machine Nicolás MaduroWho seeks a third consecutive six-year term in power.
In addition to the Chavista leader, former ambassadors also compete in these elections Edmundo González UrrutiaStandard-bearer of the main opposition coalition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD)Which has decided to participate in simultaneous presidential elections for the first time since Maduro came to power in 2013.
Likewise, evangelical pastor Javier Bertucci, comedian Benjamín Rousseau, former mayors Daniel Ceballos and Claudio Fermín, former councilor Antonio Acari, deputies Luis Eduardo Martínez and José Brito and former electoral rector Enrique Márquez appear.
more than 388,000 members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) And various state security forces have been deployed in the country, maintaining a temporary “closure” to the movement of people across the border, as well as to the movement of vehicles” in the land access with neighboring countries, Colombia and Brazil.