MADRID, November 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced this Friday that a mock consultative referendum will be held on November 19 that will be held in December so that “the entire country becomes familiar with the electoral process” regarding the “defense of Guayana Esequiba”.

“All necessary adjustments are being made so that all Venezuelans participate and know everything related to the December 3 process to defend Venezuela’s Essequibo,” explained the president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso, in a statement published this Friday on the organization’s own website.

According to Amoroso, on November 19, around a thousand tables will be set up in 485 election centers, in cities across the national territory. Throughout the day, “The Electoral Force will travel throughout the country and will meet with organizations with political objectives, trade unions, to familiarize themselves with the process of this election, which will be very simple and fast,” added the president of the National Electoral Council. .

The consultative referendum, Amoroso recalled, would address five questions “to defend the Essequibo Region which historically belongs to all Venezuelans.” “Everyone participates, all Venezuelans unite to participate in the Consultative for the Essequibo,” he requested.

Essequibo is a region covering 159,542 kilometers that has important natural resources – oil, gas, mining, hydraulic and forestry – as well as great tourism potential. It is administered by Guyana based on an 1899 arbitration decision.

Specifically, Guyana argues that Caracas agreed to cede the Essequibo after the decree was issued in 1899, but that Venezuela later revoked the decree. Caracas relies on a treaty signed in 1966 in Geneva between Venezuela and Britain, Guyana’s former colonial power, which recognized that the Essequibo was a disputed territory.