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| Ecuadorian foundation to be observer of Venezuelan referendum |
| | www.chinaview.cn 2004-08-08 10:32:32 |
QUITO, Aug. 7
(Xinhuanet) -- Ecuador's Guayasamin Foundation announced Saturday that it will
join the Group of International Electoral Observers of the First Presidential
Referendum in Venezuela scheduled for Aug. 15.
Members of
the foundation Alfredo Vera and Pablo Guayasamin will travel to Caracas on
Tuesday at the formal invitation of Venezuela's National Electoral
Council.
Vera said they will be joined in Venezuela by
Ecuadorian writers Raul Perez, Thiago de Mello and Fernando Cazon who are also
members of the foundation's delegation. The representatives will stay in Caracas
till Aug. 16.
Vera considered the invitation as a great
honor for the foundation because "they will witness a new and transcending event
for Latin American politics."
Venezuela is the only country
in the continent with a constitution providing for presidential revocation
as a democratic mechanism to defend sovereignty, he said.
Under the Venezuelan Constitution, in order to oust President Hugo Chavez, the
opposition has to collect votes equal or higher than those obtained by the
president in the 2000 election, which mean at least 3.7 million
votes.
Among the 3.4 million collected by the Venezuelan
opposition, 1.9 million anti-Chavez signatures had been validated to seek a
recall referendum against Chavez while the others were declared invalid as some
names and identifications were similar.
Chavez, who was elected in 1998 and reelected to a six-year term in 2000, has been accused by his opponents of wrecking Venezuela's economy. Enditem |
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