Millions of Venezuelans Vote in Socialist Party Primaries

[Judi Lynn]

Millions of Venezuelans Vote in Socialist Party Primaries



Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro waves his country's flag at the campaign close for
primary elections for the ruling Socialist party, June 26, 2015. | Photo: AVN

Published 28 June 2015 (6 hours 38 minutes ago)

All of the governing party's candidates for the December elections will be selected Sunday.



Millions of members of the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) will hit the ballot box Sunday to vote for the left-wing party’s candidates for parliamentary elections to be held in December.

"Here are these candidates, they are men and women who come from the people, they were nominated by the grassroots (of the party), now it is up to you to choose,” stated Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Friday during an event to celebrate the close of campaign.

Of the 1,162 candidates registered for these primary elections, 98 will be chosen to run as candidates on behalf of the PSUV, the largest political party in Latin America with over 7 million members.

The PSUV has gone to great lengths to promote inclusiveness in these primary elections, especially among women and youth, with only 15 percent of candidates above the age of 50 and more than half being women. This stands in stark contrast to the right-wing opposition coalition, known as the MUD, where more than 80 percent of their candidates are above the age of 50.

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