11-06-06, 8:42 am
Lucena said to reporters that the attacks of the opposition on the CNE have been destroyed by truth, after affirming that the schedule is on time for the polls.
For the President of the CNE, this shows in Venezuela there is an election process underway, which -she said- functions perfectly after repeating the results will be transparent.
Lucena stressed that to that end a platform was established which also supports the free and democratic right to vote by each Venezuelan citizen.
Asked about a video screened by the commando of the campaign of opposition candidate Manuel Rosales, where the minister of Energy and Oil, Rafael Ramirez, appears in a private assembly, Lucena said that no denounce had been presented to the CNE on the issue.
In the video, Ramirez warns managers of Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) he will not allow actions of saboteurs in that enterprise, words considered by the opposition as an action to favor the candidate and current President Hugo Chavez.
Chavez and vice president Jose Vicente Rangel, defended Ramirez´s position and bashed the opposition for having politicized PDVSA with a strike carried out in 2002-2003 as part of a conspiracy.
The rector of the CNE, Humberto Castillo, reported the logistics spread by the entity during the trial run of the elections made this Sunday showed everything works fine.
For the trial run a total of 22 thousand staff were used, including voting machine operators and the so called fingerprint detector, technical support and rapid attention centers, among others.
Another 60 thousand troops also took part throughout the national territory, attached to the Unified Commando of the National Armed Forces, CUFAN who were in charge of distributing and security of the equipment.
This trial run will help us evaluate the logistics of voting machine distribution, he said.
From Prensa Latina
