Caracas: The leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) will evaluate today the results of the primary elections, open in eight states and the candidates for governor in the November elections have yet to be defined, Prensa Latina publishes.
The first vice president of the PSUV, Diosdado Cabello, explained at a press conference that the Electoral Commission of the organization established a minimum of 40 percent of the votes and an advantage of 10 percentage points to directly declare a winner in the internal process held on Sunday.
By not complying with these parameters, the Party will submit to evaluation the candidates Pedro Leal and Ramón Carrizales (Apure), Karina Carpio and Rodolfo Marco Torres (Aragua), Tito Oviedo and Justo Noguera (Bolívar), Margaud Godoy and Luis Yoyotte (Cojedes).
Likewise, Leudys González and Yelitze Santaella (Monagas), Dante Rivas and Marisel Velásquez (Nueva Esparta), Gilberto Pinto and Luis Sifontes (Sucre), Hugo Cabezas and Hugbel Roa (Trujillo).
Cabello emphasized that the candidates for the 23 governorates of the country in the November 21 elections must be a guarantee of victory, with the aim of strengthening the revolutionary process.
The first vice president of the PSUV added that to define the pending candidacies in the demarcations subject to review, the Electoral Commission will take into account the criteria of the political reality of the territories and the internal regulations of the Party.
In another segment of his statements, the socialist leader dismissed the attacks registered from media laboratories serving the right wing, in order to cloud and minimize the internal electoral process of the largest political organization in the country.
?The opposition must learn from its failures, this people came out to vote because they know what they have to defend,? emphasized Cabello, highlighting the broad participation in the primaries on Sunday, August 8.
According to figures from the PSUV, 3,500,000 Venezuelans cast their vote to elect representatives of the Socialist Party in the November 21 elections.
However, estimates indicate that at least another two million voters went to the voting centers to express their will, but the logistics installed by the National Electoral Center were overwhelmed and were insufficient to respond to the influx of people.
Cabello pointed out that the Party?s internal electoral process revealed many strengths and weaknesses that will be evaluated by the national leadership for the upcoming democratic event, in which the 335 mayors and the members of the regional and municipal legislative bodies will also be chosen.