Once again, Venezuela has shown the world the unique experience of the commune councils. Millions of people across the country went to the streets to cast their ballots in the elections. teleSUR was present with several teams, from the beginning to the end of the vote, covering the events live.
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00:00Once again in Venezuela, people live on a unique experience as they went to the
00:14community councils to vote for the projects most needed in their own
00:17communities. Our correspondent went on the field and have the story of everything
00:21that happened this Sunday.
00:24In a demonstration of the participative democracy and popular power that drives
00:31the Bolivarian Revolution, the people organizing 5,338 communes went to the
00:38street to vote in peace. In that way, showed the political and social reality of the
00:43country. Each community had chosen a project to be developed and built by
00:48itself, with the state financing it.
00:54It is our people empowered, participating, putting their project in this stage, in
01:03this second moment, in our second communal project, our second election of a communal
01:07project. We are seeing an active and massive participation because the people
01:11know, comprehend, and understand that this is the way, this is the democratic
01:17participative way, where we all expose our ideas. We participate and we are an
01:22important part of the solution and this is a reality.
01:32As part of the plan of seven transformation by President Nicolás Maduro to overcome the economic
01:38crisis that the country has suffered from illegal sanction provoked by the USA, the
01:44community councils contribute to the transformation and development of their respective territories.
01:55I think that this will be demarcated in the seven transformations, because we are going towards a communal city or a communal country, because the communes are already a reality, the strengthening of popular power so that our democracy is perfected.
02:32The electoral commission presented the first official report of the second popular consultation of the year and highlighted the extraordinary participation of communities in the more than 7000 across the country.
02:54Our elections in our country are very important because we can express, expose the needs of our communes, where the government helps us to solve our situation.
03:12Today, my project was for number six, which is also very important because in my commune, I live here near El Calvario in the great housing mission.
03:24They're already solving the situation of filtration of the slab and all these issues.
03:28The success of the electoral process is because of the giant investment given by the government. In the last year, more than 148
03:48millions of dollars were invested in more than 40,000 projects realized by the work and organization of the people, showing the reason Venezuela is growing and reinventing herself.
04:02Bruno Fauci, from Caracas, Venezuela, for Telesur.