Plan República vouches the operation of 78% of polling stations

Wilmer Barrientos, chief of the Operational Strategic Command, reported on Sunday that 78% of the polling stations arranged throughout Venezuela to elect state governors and deputies to legislative councils are in good working order.

"The process is on track," except for some isolated events, he remarked.

Barrientos downplayed the claims of attack on Zulia state governor Pablo Pérez. "It is just a road accident as it usually happens anywhere else in the country," the official said in reference to a car that crashed into the garage of the governor's residency in the early hours of Sunday.

The high-ranking officer is responsible for Plan República, a deployment of military troops to balloting centers and voters.