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A few minutes, documentation and a mobile phone with an Internet connection.

That is all that Venezuelan citizens have needed, both within the oil country and in the rest of the world, to participate in the popular consultation promoted by Juan Guaidó in front of the elections to the National Assembly of Venezuela, held on December 6 and considered a fraud by the opposition and by a large part of the international community.

Through Telegram and

VOATZ

, an application to vote telematically, millions of Venezuelans have confirmed their identity in order to express their opinion and answer the three questions posed,

from "all places where there is a Venezuelan"

, in the words of the deputy. Venezuelan Ramón López.

"In Spain, the participation of Venezuelans, dispersed throughout the national territory, is massive.

Today we have a presence in 56 cities of the Spanish territory

," said López, coordinator of the consultation in Spain.

"It is based on

American voting

software

and what you express is certified through an identity document," defends Luis Rodríguez, a 57-year-old Venezuelan emigrant, mobile in hand, after participating in the consultation.

"The moment the thieves who are in Venezuela say that this is not valid, it can be verified that each of these Venezuelan people, with their identification, have voted. It is not like they do, that they put a person to vote 4, 5, 12, 20 times ".

Rodríguez is one of the hundreds of Venezuelans who have gathered this morning, the "culminating moment" of the consultation, in the central Puerta del Sol, under the statue of Carlos III and next to the Christmas tree that crowns the square on these dates .

Citizens who had not been able to vote, due to problems in the digital registry or when confirming identity, and others who wanted to show their support for the consultation have met at the 'Freedom Point in Madrid', as defined by the opposition call , which called to vote for Guiadó's consultation.

Divided into two folding tents, in the first several volunteers answered questions and in the second, incidents were solved and the vote could be ratified, by entering the QR code generated by the application in a symbolic ballot box.

The wife of former political prisoner Leopoldo López, Lilian Tintori, has also approached this voting point, who has expressed on Twitter her desire to return to Venezuela.

So has the father of the opponent, the MEP with the same name.

The Venezuelan exiles have been supported by representatives of the Spanish PNV, PP, Ciudadanos, and UPN parties.

This is the case of Begoña Villacís, vice mayor of Madrid, who usually supports the opposition in their actions in Madrid in favor of democracy in Venezuela.

Villacís has rejected the elections in Venezuela and has indicated that

"in Spain they are with democracy and not with Podemos

.

"

"Medium participation"

"

Face-to-face participation has been medium because they have been participating electronically all week and it is not mandatory to bring the code

, whoever wants to can do it, but we are for those who had problems or who did not know how to do it," explains Patricia Kowalski , volunteer at the 'Point of Freedom' of Puerta del Sol.

Among the constant calls from the organization to "keep biosanitary measures and use antibacterial gel and masks," María del Carmen, 92, has come to participate in the consultation.

Leaning on a cane and accompanied by her granddaughter, she criticizes that the Nicolás Maduro regime "has sold a country" and assures that after an election "in which, against, 70% stopped voting," the Chavista leaders

"did not they go because they have too much to lose

.

"

Born in Spain, María del Carmen lived for 80 years in Venezuela - "I married a Venezuelan, my children are Venezuelan, my grandchildren are Venezuelan, and I am Venezuelan" - until in 2018 her children convinced her to leave the country because "Things started to get more and more difficult, especially at the level of finding medicines."

"I am a retired university professor, and what I 'receive' [he makes the gesture of quotation marks with his hands] monthly in payment of my retirement is equivalent to more or less about three euros," he criticizes.

María del Carmen is not the only one who this year has celebrated the second anniversary since she emigrated from Venezuela.

Eduardo Gil, a delivery man for a food delivery app, is 29 years old and has been in Madrid for two of them.

"

I came because of the Maduro dictatorship, I came to bring my family

- my wife and my two children - and thank God they have treated me well here," he says.

After passing with his bicycle in front of the tent, he asks what is happening and when informed, he registers in the application to vote.

"Although

right now

there is

high demand [order], I am willing to lose my job for

a while. I could lose up to

a full day if it is to do this."

Baptized with the name 'Venezuela raises its voice against Maduro' and started on December 7, the presidency in charge has defined the consultation as "a mechanism that allows the people of Venezuela to express themselves in a legitimate and constitutional way, without depending on the usurped institutions for the dictatorship ".

A volunteer from the point installed in Puerta del Sol, asked by a passerby about the effectiveness of the consultation, assured that the objective was for it to be, at least,

"a pebble in Maduro's shoe

.

"

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