Venezuela | Voting centers are already closing to voters
Special envoy Yunus Soner is in the Petare neighbourhood in Caracas, reporting on the elections from the voting center located in the Doctor Jose de Jesus Arocha educational unit. The voting center is already calling to close, although some voters are still yet to vote. teleSUR
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00:00Let's go live to Caracas once more, this time with our special MVP in Venezuela, Junus Zuner,
00:05who is at this moment in Petare at the Dr. José de Jesús Arrocha Educational Unit Voting Center.
00:11Hello, Junus, tell us where are you and what are the latest news?
00:19Hello, good afternoon from here, Petare, José de Jesús Arrocha High School, the voting center,
00:28main voting center in Petare with more than 8,000 citizens registered, and this center,
00:34as I have gotten confirmed, has been closed right now. So the president of the election center here
00:43has gathered minutes ago all the chairmen of the different election tables, eight of them,
00:51and has held the ceremony, and now they are closing the tables, so they are
01:00cancelling, they are auditing the machines. We can watch this, I think, so it's done behind the
01:10behind the cartoon there. As you see, there is a representative of an oppositional party here
01:21as well present, looking and checking, so this center has been closed, and I'm hearing that
01:28over all the country, all centers are being closed, except when there's a queue outside
01:34still waiting to vote, then in those centers there is an exemption made, but generally,
01:44I received the confirmation from the representatives of the National Electoral Council
01:50here in this center that the election has finalized. The presidential elections of
02:00the Republic of Venezuela of July 28 have been finished,
02:06now the papers are arranged, the data is being transferred.
02:14We were about to make an interview with the representatives, but they said it's legally
02:19not possible, so we refrained from that. We just show you that all representatives are here
02:26checking the data, checking the documents, and sending the data also to the National Electoral
02:33Council. Final comparisons are being made, the machines are being slowly taken down,
02:41so I can from here, Petare, confirm that the elections in Venezuela have finished,
02:49with possible exceptions in those election centers where there's still a queue outside,
02:56because this is what the law says, this is what the constitution says, that any citizen has the
03:01right to vote, and if he comes late and has to wait outside the election center, then the election
03:09center will admit his entry, and admit that he casts his vote, but generally speaking,
03:17the elections of July 28 for the presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela are finished.
03:26Thank you, Yunus, we'll come back to you throughout.