Eight million Venezuelans live outside the country and of them, five million are of legal age, according to the UN. However, due to the various requirements imposed by the Government of Nicolás Maduro for electoral registration abroad, Only 69,211 Venezuelans abroad are eligible to voteAnd less than 1% of the Venezuelan population that is abroad can vote.
Thousands of them live in Spain and have gone to vote this Sunday, and have expressed to the microphones of laSexta what this day means to them. This is the case of Lidia, who left Venezuela five years ago and this Sunday voted in Barcelona, one of the five cities where you can do so together with Madrid, Vigo, Bilbao and Tenerife.
Lidia says that ““insecurity was brutal”: “One of my sons was kidnapped twice.” Also because his father feared for his safety, Eugenia emigrated 15 years ago“When you are outside your country, you are very excited to vote, but also when there are so many people who cannot exercise their right to vote,” says the young woman.
It is an important day for them, their eyes say it, and that is why, at 90 years old and with Spanish immigrant parents, Miguelina “votes today for freedom.”I’m hopeful, but we’ll see,” he says. Like them, Almost 25,000 Venezuelans settled in Spain can exercise their right to vote today.
“What I want is for Nicolás to leave,” they sing at the polling stations, and they assure that they “have a lot of faith in God”: “We will get through this in good shape.” “I am one of those almost three million votes “Abroad, we didn’t have the opportunity to vote,” a Venezuelan in Barcelona told laSexta.
The expulsion of the PP
From Spain, They will have to follow the count also Popular Party parliamentarians expelled from Venezuela. Alfonso Serrano, general secretary of the PP in Madrid, told in an interview this Saturday on laSexta Xplica how his expulsion came about.They took our passport in the queue and they have not given us any document stating the reasons for our expulsion“, he assured.
PSOE sources ask the ‘popular’ to clarify whether the trip was financed with public moneybecause they say that taxes are not there to pay what they consider an “absurd” photograph.
Source: Lasexta
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