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  • Venezuela's COPEI Party Denounces Chavez's International Election Observers Plan(Translation)

    10/09/2006 1:03:03 PM PDT · by StJacques · 7 replies · 524+ views
    El Universal ( Caracas ) ^ | October 9, 2006 | El Universal staff article ( translated by self )
    COPEI1 denounces CNE for wanting to bring "mute" international observers Caracas. -- The Secretary General of COPEI, Luis Ignacio Planas, complained strongly that the government, through the National Electoral Council (CNE), wants to bring "mute" international observers for the December presidential elections. "It does not make sense to make an effort, and that we Venezuelans, with our money, should pay the passage and the per diem expenses of the observers so that they come to engage in electoral tourism in Venezuela." The question is "how can they impede the watchers from saying that which they observe in the Venezuelan...