Acting President Delcy Rodríguez announced this Sunday that the National Popular Consultation on March 8 will have 1.000 new polling centers to facilitate citizen participation throughout the territory.
After participating in the electoral simulation from the Las Palmas en Pie de Lucha Training Center, in the Santa Rosalía parish of Caracas, the president highlighted that the strengthening of the automated system allows for a deeper exercise of direct democracy as contemplated in the National Constitution.
Rodríguez explained that in the previous assemblies it was 36.416 projects have been submitted, the result of more than 47 Community Councils throughout the national territory.
According to the report presented, 67% of these proposals are framed within the economic transformation (1T) and the consolidation of Human Cities (2T), focused on public services, while the remaining 33% correspond to entrepreneurship and productive linkage projects within the economic transformation.
Incentives for youth and female participation
In the context of International Women's Day, the date on which the consultation will coincide, the acting president made a special appeal for female and youth participation.
He announced that the first 10 municipalities with the highest voter turnout will receive direct funding for projects managed by young people, a sector that already has more than 400 approved proposals for this election day.
The acting president emphasized that this process allows the community not only to select its priorities, but also to directly execute the allocated resources.
Rodríguez concluded that this first consultation of 2026 marks the course of a Venezuela that is maturing collectively through the strengthening of People's Power and the leading role of public policies.
