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Venez: United Socialist Party Elects Delegates for National Conference
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
Venezuelanalysis.com - Oct 1, 2007
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/2669
Venezuela:
United Socialist Party Elects Delegates for National Conference
by Kiraz Janicke
Caracas, October 1, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com) - The process of
constructing the new United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV),
initiated by President Hugo Chavez in December last year to give
collective political direction to the process of social change
unfolding in Venezuela, has entered a new chapter with the
participation on Saturday of over one million aspiring members in the
elections of spokespeople for each "socialist battalion."
Thanking the national technical commission, the promoters, and all the
aspiring members that have been participating in the formation of the
new party, Chavez announced on his weekly program Hello President on
Sunday that a total of 11,333 spokespeople from the socialist
battalions had been elected through direct, secret ballot. In addition,
each socialist battalion also elected representatives for five
committees consisting of a Political and Ideological committee,
Communications, Organisation and Logistics, Social Work, and a
Territorial Defence committee. Chavez also announced that approximately
56,000 committee representatives were elected.
Throughout the process of forming the new party Chavez has repeatedly
emphasized the im****tance of popular participation and building the
PSUV from the "bottom up." The new party, Chavez says, is necessary to
carry out the socialist transformation of Venezuela.
"With the creation of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) a
powerful political and moral instrument is being built that leads to
the dignification [sic] of politics, a new proposal of popular
participation", said Ch!vez when he announced in May his aspiring
member****p of the PSUV.
In an open letter published Saturday, Venezuelan Vice-president Jorge
Rodriguez, also the co-ordinator of the technical commission of the
PSUV, which was created to over see the formation of the new party,
said "the chosen spokespeople should know to represent the sentiment of
the battalions."
Rodriguez continued, "Today completes a new phase in this beautiful
road of the construction of our revolutionary process, of the
construction of a socialist homeland... With the election of the
spokespeople we will have conquered a new obstacle in this all-out war
to make Venezuela a country for everyone."
Rodrguez added that between the July 21 and September 15 89,667
meetings of the socialist battalions had been carried out through out
the entire country, with the participation of millions of aspiring
members of the PSUV.
In order to be elected spokespeople were required to have attended at
least fifty percent of the meetings of their respective socialist
battalion and in order to vote in the elections aspiring members were
required to have participated in at least two meetings of their
battalion.
The technical commission of the PSUV renounced, along with Chavez and
many other parliamentarians and other elected officials, any
aspirations to stand for election as spokespeople in their respective
battalions, in order to allow for the spokespeople to be elected from
the grassroots.
For various reasons, a number of socialist battalions were unable to
elect their spokespeople on Saturday and have resolved to hold
elections this coming week.
The elected spokespeople and committee representatives of every ten
socialist battalions, grouped geographically, will now form "socialist
cir***scriptions" to discuss and debate proposals over the political
program and structure of the PSUV. On October 13 each cir***scription
will then elect one delegate to the founding congress of the PSUV,
which is scheduled to start on October 20. Only the elected
spokespeople from each battalion will be able to stand as delegates to
the founding congress. The founding congress, which does not yet have a
closing date, will debate and decide the structure, statutes, and
political program of the PSUV as well as electing the leader****p of the
new party.
According to Guillermo Garca Ponce, a member of the technical
commission of the PSUV, of the 5.7 million initial inscriptions to join
the new party, between 1.2-1.3 million people are participating
regularly in the meetings of the socialist battalions. However, he
said, the technical committee is aiming to increase participation and
also considering opening up a new round of inscriptions as many people
who did not join up in the first round of inscriptions in May have
expressed interest in becoming members of the new party.
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