Special envoy in Venezuela, Brian Mier reports on the new strategies and mobilizations used by all of the 10 candidate’s in order to attract votes during the final week before the election. teleSUR
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00:00For the upcoming presidential elections on July 28th, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela
00:05is using a new strategy to bring out the vote called 1 plus 10 plus 7.
00:10Let's see more details in the following report by our special envoy, Brian Meir.
00:19With less than two weeks left before Venezuela's presidential elections, supporters of all
00:23ten candidates are working hard to bring out the vote.
00:26The governing Socialist Unity Party has a long history of popular mobilization, but
00:31this year they're using a new strategy to bring out the vote for incumbent president
00:36Nicolas Maduro called 1 times 10 times 7.
00:41Every one of us is capable of mobilizing ten people and convincing them to find seven more.
00:50And during these days, we have to do it in a way that is objective, clear, precise and
00:55disciplined.
01:00We have to be efficient and effective.
01:04Using an old tactic of asking every party member to convince ten people to vote for
01:08him as a starting point, President Maduro is asking them to ask each person they convince
01:13to vote for him to try to convince seven more.
01:16The number 70, which is the potential number of votes each person can mobilize using the
01:21strategy, is symbolically important.
01:24If former President Hugo Chavez were alive today, he would celebrate his 70th birthday
01:29on election day.
01:33I am raising people's consciousness, including my family, my children, my nephews and my
01:42mom, by reminding them what we have achieved and showing them and explaining the things
01:50that the government is doing now.
01:55Not by making up stories, but by telling the truth.
02:00How well is this new 1 times 10 times 7 strategy going to work?
02:05The world will find out on July 28th when millions of Venezuelans go to the polls.
02:09Brian Muir, Tell Us Sir, Caracas.