The Venezuelan regime of President Nicolás Maduro heads for Sunday's commune elections with the results of the July 28 presidential polls questioned by about half of the world's governments. Communes are new forms of social organization based on self-management, Agência Brasil explained. There are 4,500 of them nationwide.
Communal councils are some sort of permanent popular assemblies of residents of a neighborhood or rural area. Maduro has argued that this election represents the model of direct and participatory democracy that the country wants to build. Venezuela has its own model of democracy, we are building it.
We don't accept impositions, interventionism, or anyone who gets their hands dirty in our dear, beautiful country. Venezuela has Popular Power, he insisted Friday on state TV. Sunday's will be the second commune elections ever after the ones in April this year.
The government expects consultations like these to take place every three months. Created in 2010 by law, then-President Hugo Chávez said that communes should be the space where we give birth to the socialism of the 21st century. There are communes with agro-industrial production, services, or even popular banks.
There is a process of radicalization of democracy, with various mechanisms for direct popular participation in important decisions, including budgetary ones, which is the horror of the Venezuelan elite, historically accustomed to making a profit from oil royalties, Federal Unive.