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7/21/05

venezuelanalysis.com:European Union to Monitor December Parliamentary Elections in Venezuela

venezuelanalysis.com

European Union to Monitor December Parliamentary Elections in Venezuela

The president of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE), Jorge Rodriguez, announced today that the European Union (EU) would send a technical observer mission to Venezuela, in preparation for its observation of the upcoming December 2005 National Assembly vote. Rodriguez specified that the EU mission would not be limited to observing the vote, but would also participate in the auditing of voting machines and in the evaluation of the political situation in Venezuela. The EU did not send an observer mission to last year’s presidential recall referendum because, it said, there was not enough time for it to prepare a mission between the announcement of the referendum in late May and the vote on August 15th, 2004. Rodriguez said that not only has the EU been invited to observe the vote, but individual member countries of the EU have also been invited.

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