"We don't want a fraudulent Constituent Assembly imposed on us. State media largely ignored Sunday's event, concentrating instead on a simultaneous, government-organized practice run for the July 30 vote. "Ten-year-old kids voted, thousands of minors, Australians, US citizens ... a gigantic fraud," Socialist Party official Jorge Rodriguez said, mocking Sunday's vote which also took place among Venezuela's large diaspora communities. Foreign Minister Samuel Moncada called a news conference to accuse international media of complicity with the opposition to exaggerate Sunday's vote and denigrate Maduro. The total vote would be impossible to check, he said, as opposition organizers were going to burn ballots.

Source: bd News24 July 17, 2017 17:26 UTC