Caracas, January 28, 2025 (Venezolanalysis. com) – The National Electoral Council of Venezuela (CNE) has officially announced that the legislative and regional elections will be held on April 27, reaffirming their commitment to “guarantee the right to vote and announce political participation “.

On this date, the electorate will be 277 deputies of the National Assembly (AN), as well as the Government for 23 Regional Governors and Legislative Councils, whose situations will begin in January 2026. Unlike the past electoral cycles, the elections for 335 mayors and the municipal councils will be provided at a later date announced.

In a televised address on Monday, CNE president Elvis Amoroso stated that the electoral schedule would be released shortly in accordance with established regulations. He likewise declared the council in “permanent session” to guarantee all necessary preparations for a successful electoral process.

“The National Electoral Council undertakes to ensure that political organizations, applicants and all sectors of democratic life that participate in the 2025 elections are experiencing the highest degrees of reliability and transparency,” said loving. “We will provide audits in accordance with constitutional, legal and regulatory provisions. “

Loving, as well as 4 other CNE records, they explained that political parties and applicants will have to indicate a document that began to comply with the safe directives on the elections of April 27 and settle for the effects announced through the CNE.

Venezuela held the regional elections for the last time in November 2021, when the electorate chose governors, mayors, regional legislators and counselors. Despite a low participation, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won 19 of the 23 governors and 212 of the 335 positions of Mayoral.  

The 2021 race was marked by the rightwing Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) return to the ballot after years of general or partial boycotts, but its results were underwhelming, securing only three governorships in Zulia, Cojedes and Barinas states. Meanwhile, the moderate-right Democratic Alliance won the Nueva Esparta governorship.

The regional contest also saw controversy in the Barinas gubernatorial race when the Venezuelan Supreme Court (TSJ) declared the results void alleging that MUD candidate Freddy Superlano was barred from holding public office. A re-run vote in January 2022 had MUD candidate Sergio Garrido defeating PSUV candidate and former Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza.

Previously, in the parliamentary elections of December 2020, the PSUV won 256 of the 277 seats in the National Assembly, recovering the opposition supported by the United States, which had won an unprecedented majority five years earlier. and the revolutionary popular alternative, a critical left coalition of the Maduro government, captured an attached seat.

President Nicolás Maduro praised CNE’s announcement on Monday, saying that “nothing external thing can save our people” to choose new regional and legislative officials on April 27. “We are convinced that the path to attach to participatory and protagonist democracy”

In contrast, the hardline opposition has rejected the electoral authorities’ call for regional and legislative elections. Far-right leader María Corina Machado took to social media to warn anti-government forces against taking part in electoral contests until the “sovereign mandate” of the July 28 presidential vote is “upheld.” She called for “national unity” and negotiations aimed at achieving a “democratic and orderly transition.”

“We do not comply or approve any choice until the effects of July 28 are respected. Those who do not respect the popular vote should not ask for popular vote,” Machado said in X.

On July 28, 2024, the Electoral Government of Venezuela declared Maduro the winner of the presidential elections, giving him a third mandate. The opposition backed by the United States, directed through Machado, rejected the result, saying that his candidate, Edmundo González, winner and raising abroad, cut nations for support.

After President Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office on Jan. 20, U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a verbal telephone exchange with Machado and Gonzalez. A brief press release described the former candidate as “the legitimate president of Venezuela,” indicating a continuation of Biden’s management technique of Venezuela. On Jan. 7, the former president welcomed Gonzalez to the White House, calling him “president-elect. “

In response, Caracas accused Washington of using “obsolete intervention strategies. ” In addition, the Maduro government has damaged diplomatic ties with several Latin American countries that Washington’s foreign policy.

Edited by Ricardo Vaz of Caracas.

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