Arrive in Venezuela

Caracas, Dec 6 (Prensa Latina) International observers arrive in Venezuela today to be accredited by the National Electoral Council (CNE) for the municipal elections to be held next Sunday.

Among the group of observers are the specialists of the Council of Electoral Experts of Latin America (CEELA), constituted by former presidents and magistrates of electoral bodies of Latin America, who already enjoy recognition in the validation of the majority of the 22 elections held in the country in the last 18 years.

The Regulation of the Organic Law of Electoral Processes states in article 471 that both the national electoral observation and the international electoral accompaniment are intended to witness, in an impartial and independent manner, the transparent development of the electoral processes.

In this way, the roads areclosed to sectors of the opposition that only consider valid the elections in which the results of the polls are favorable to them, something that barely happened twice in almost two decades.

The activities of the observers 'shall be in accordance with the principles established in the Venezuelan legal system on the matter, in particular, the principles of constitutional supremacy, legality, sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability, self-determination of peoples, non-interference, impartiality, transparency and respect for electoral rules and authorities,' according to the current rules.

On the other hand, the process that will take the Venezuelans to the polls next Sunday, overthrows, once again, the argument of opposition sectors that the Venezuelan revolutionary government refuses to call for elections.