Venezuela prepares another electoral contest in 2009
Caracas December 2 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela is preparing today for a new election campaign in 2009 with the purpose of voting on a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow a new mandate to President Hugo Chávez.
On Monday, the president authorized the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) to start the presidential re-election campaign continued, opening the possibility of extending the government of President Hugo Chávez after 2013.
The Venezuelan Constitution allows only two consecutive terms, so it requires a constitutional amendment to modify that provision.
The process involves, first, collecting signatures of at least 15 percent of registered voters requesting the amendment and then a referendum on the president's approach must be made no later than February 2009.
The PSUV must collect two million 550 thousand signatures, 15 percent of the 17 million registered in the Permanent Electoral Registry, objective mathematically possible if one considers that the party has more than five million members.
Electoral Power shall submit to referendum a request for amendment within 30 days after formal receipt.
The amendment would allow Chavez to end the four years of the current mandate and add another six to complete 10 years, which it considers necessary for the consolidation of the socialist system based on the principles of Simón Bolívar.
According to the Head of State, with this process, he called the campaign "Uh, Ah, Chavez is not leaving!" Begins a decade of consolidation which will run until 2019.
If we are to make the amendment, said "let's do it now, December is a good date, start the offensive today," the prepared in December and January: ras!, Stroke, "to call a referendum no later than February.
The new offensive following the electoral victory of the PSUV in the regional elections on November 23, when their candidates won 17 of the 22 governorships at stake and over 80 fear of the scientific alcaldías.
Caracas December 2 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela is preparing today for a new election campaign in 2009 with the purpose of voting on a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow a new mandate to President Hugo Chávez.
On Monday, the president authorized the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) to start the presidential re-election campaign continued, opening the possibility of extending the government of President Hugo Chávez after 2013.
The Venezuelan Constitution allows only two consecutive terms, so it requires a constitutional amendment to modify that provision.
The process involves, first, collecting signatures of at least 15 percent of registered voters requesting the amendment and then a referendum on the president's approach must be made no later than February 2009.
The PSUV must collect two million 550 thousand signatures, 15 percent of the 17 million registered in the Permanent Electoral Registry, objective mathematically possible if one considers that the party has more than five million members.
Electoral Power shall submit to referendum a request for amendment within 30 days after formal receipt.
The amendment would allow Chavez to end the four years of the current mandate and add another six to complete 10 years, which it considers necessary for the consolidation of the socialist system based on the principles of Simón Bolívar.
According to the Head of State, with this process, he called the campaign "Uh, Ah, Chavez is not leaving!" Begins a decade of consolidation which will run until 2019.
If we are to make the amendment, said "let's do it now, December is a good date, start the offensive today," the prepared in December and January: ras!, Stroke, "to call a referendum no later than February.
The new offensive following the electoral victory of the PSUV in the regional elections on November 23, when their candidates won 17 of the 22 governorships at stake and over 80 fear of the scientific alcaldías.
NOTE: This is sure to win our second attempt NOR
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