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Caracas.- This Sunday, May 25th Venezuela will be holding regional and legislative elections with the purpose of electing the legislators and governors who will accompany the government of Nicolás Maduro for the next 4 years.
Military personnel and police will guard more than 4,590 strategic facilities "strategic facilities", reported this Wednesday the operational strategic commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB), Domingo Hernández Lárez.
The Venezuelan government denounced on Monday that "groups determined to generate violence" were organizing a plan of "attacks" in the country to "sabotage" the elections of this May 25, in which it involved the opposition leader María Corina Machado, who has refused to participate in this vote, and the Albanian mafia in Ecuador.
It is recalled that, at the end of January, the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela called for regional and legislative elections, when it has not yet published the detailed results of the controversial presidential elections of last July.
For his part, the candidate of the main opposition coalition -Democratic Unity Platform (PUD)-, Edmundo González Urrutia, recently assured that the anti-Chavismo he represents will not participate in what he considers "false elections" and warned that "there will only be legitimate elections when" their claimed victory in last year's presidential elections is respected.
The upcoming Sunday elections in Venezuela will test the convening power of Chavismo, which has been in charge of the country since 1999 and controls 256 of the 277 seats in the National Assembly (Parliament) and 19 of the country's 23 provinces, after the controversial presidential elections of July 2024.
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Venezuela's elections on Sunday will include, for the first time, an election, with more symbolic than practical effect, of positions from this country for the Esequibo, a territory administered by Guyana of almost 160,000 square kilometers, rich in oil and other natural resources, and which Caracas claims as its own.
