Venezuela's united socialist party communal councils and communes vice president, Jorge Arreaza, said that each popular consultation carried out in the country, cements the constitutional project of commander Hugo Chávez to give a stronger voice to the people.
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00:00In Venezuela's United Socialist Party, communal councils and communes, Vice President Jorge
00:05Arraza said that each popular consultation carried out in the country sentenced the
00:10constitutional project of Commander Hugo Chavez to give a stronger voice to the people.
00:20We are materializing a project contemplated in our constitution, when in 1999 the constituent
00:26assembly and Commander Chavez proposed a participative and protagonist democracy to
00:30give power to the people. This is not a decree, there is no specific article, but it happens,
00:36it is a process, an experience, trial and error. And I believe that President Nicolas Maduro has
00:42succeeded in this formula of popular consultations because it's about resources of Venezuela as a
00:48country, income from oil, exports, from taxes, that could be put at the disposal of government
00:57institutions. But the President will put them directly in the hands of the people to solve
01:03whatever problems people see fit. It is the people who would say I want to repair the school or I
01:08want to repair the stadium or I want to build a mission base, it is the Venezuelan people in an
01:13assembly prior to this consultation who decides, and then among the whole community, all Venezuelans
01:18over 15 years old can vote today. To decide which of these projects to implement, and that is an
01:24order for the ruler is an order for the President, it is an order for governors, mayors.