CAMBERRA.-Due to the time difference, voters Venezuelans residents in Australia They began to exercise their right to vote at the Venezuelan embassy in that country, assigned as a center for the elections presidential elections of Venezuela this July 28th.
With a difference of 14 hours with respect to America, Australia is the first country in the world where Venezuelans began to vote.
Gabriel Mijares Vázquez, a 32-year-old young man from the state of Anzoátegui, went to the embassy in Canberra, the capital of the Oceanian country, at 6:20 am. He was the first Venezuelan to vote in the world, according to what was learned on social media.
Australia, for Venezuela
However, at 4:30 pm on Saturday, July 27, the first Venezuelans began to arrive at their voting center.
“I am so happy to be here at this moment, a historic moment for my generation. Go out and vote, it is a golden moment,” he told the team from the Venezuela Vota electoral operation, from El Pitazo.
Abroad, only 69,211 Venezuelans, equivalent to 0.32% of more than 8 million residents outside the country, can vote in these elections, and they will do so manually, that is, with a physical ballot and not electronically as in Venezuela.
Source: With information from El Pitazo, networks
