This footage was filmed and produced 10 April 2024.

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The Council of Electoral Experts of Latin America (Ceela) and the Parliamentary and Electoral Observatory for Regional Integration signed on Thursday with the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela an observation agreement for the presidential elections of 28 July.
The president of Ceela, Nicanor Moscoso, indicated, during a ceremony at the CNE in Caracas, that their work will be "exclusively as observers" without assessing whether "the election is good or bad".

"The results of our work will be known exclusively by the National Electoral Council and it will be up to you to decide how to disseminate them," he said.

Moscoso stressed that Ceela's role will be to collaborate with the electoral body, as, he assured, do the members of the council in all the countries in which they accompany the development of elections.
The president of the Parliamentary and Electoral Observatory for Regional Integration, Carlos Lopez, said that Venezuela's electoral processes stand out for the "transparent way in which they are carried out, and it is true that it is recognised in the world as one of the strongest, safest and most transparent electoral systems".

"We believe that the electoral route is the only possible way to consolidate democracy and we celebrate the fact that in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, broad sectors of the opposition have decided to run in this contest," he said.

According to the CNE, 37 political organisations nominated a total of 13 candidates, all of whom were admitted, including Nicolas Maduro and Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, the candidate registered by the Plataforma Unitaria Democratica, the main opposition alliance.

The anti-Chavez coalition provisionally nominated the internationalist in view of the impediments it denounced to the registration of the historian Corina Yoris, chosen by the opposition bloc when Maria Corina Machado - winner of the October primaries - could not compete because she was disqualified from holding elected office until 2036.

Candidates will be able to modify and substitute their nominations until 20 April for the changes to be reflected on the ballot, and then until 10 days before the elections, but without effect on the ballot.

SHOTLIST:
1. Various from CNE information booth in Caracas;
2. Various from Caracas;
3. Various workers handing out CNE flyers;
4. Various from CNE building;
5. Various from the meeting;
6. Various from the signing of the memorandum.