CARACAS, Feb 3 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The Venezuelan people, organised in 5,334 municipal districts, are voting Sunday in each municipality in the First National Popular Consultation for 2025, to select the country’s priority projects from more than 36,600 proposals.
Residents of the country’s 1,101 municipalities are coming to the 5,245 polling stations set up to vote for their own development projects, which they have proposed in each municipality through town hall meetings.
The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has reported that of the total number of proposals, 6,481 are related to water, 5,136 to habitat, 4,681 to roads and 4,160 to electricity.
In addition, 3,945 are related to education; 3,123 to health; and 2,129 to water, among others.
Polling stations will be open from 08:00 local time until 18:00.
This kind of referedum, considered by the authorities to be sui generis and democratic, are the first of four planned for this year, in addition to two others related to youth and culture, and will be supervised and supported by the National Electoral Council and other institutions.
They are also part of the strategy promoted by the government of President Nicolás Maduro to empower ordinary women and men, with the approval of laws and other initiatives aimed at transferring power to the people in the short, medium and long term.
Once the projects have been approved, the funding will be provided by the national executive through the Federal Council of Government, which will hand over the money and then supervise its implementation, as was the case in the two previous elections in 2024.
Maduro defines the new power model as participatory and protagonist democracy, and has already approved 12 organic laws related to popular power in the last 25 years. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
