Chavist parties win elections in Venezuela
The Chavist parties that make up the Power Coalition in Venezuela won the regional and parliamentarians elections held on Sunday, with 83.42% of the total. The announcement was made this Tuesday by the National Electoral Council (CNE), ally of the Nicolás Maduro regime.
According to this body, when the votes of 99.88% of the votes of votes were cleared, the parties grouped in the Great Patriotic Polo Block had 5,024,475 votes.
The CNE indicated that the participation was 43.18% of the « active voters ».
On the other hand, the democratic alliance – composed of intervention and minority parties – obtained 361,769 votes, 6.01% of the total; The group Um Time (UNT)-Union and Change-formed by dissident opponents of the largest anti-Hugo Chavez coalition, former Venezuelan President, the Democratic Unit Platform (PUD)-obtained 304,425 votes (5.05%); And the strength of the neighborhood obtained 141,588 votes (2.35%).
With regard to the National Assembly (Parliament), the CNE reported that 253 of the 285 seats for deputies were attributed to Chavismo. The democratic covenant obtained 13 seats; Unt, 1; The strength of the neighborhood, four; and the pencil ring, one.
On the other hand, from the 24 states of the country, Chavismo will rule in 23, including the Essequibo region, a territory of almost 160,000 square kilometers disputed with Guyana and which Caracas considers its 24th state.
Only one state will be in the hands of the opposition, the western state of Cojedes (west), whose governor, Alberto Galindez, was reelected.
These elections were marked by a strong opposition rejection, which states that abstention was greater than 85%, and in the midst of a sharp political crisis after the arrest of former opponent Juan Pablo Guanipa and dozens of others, accused of an alleged “boycott” plan to this process.
So far, the CNE has not published the disaggregated results of these elections, nor the presidential presidential of July 2024, in which he proclaimed Nicolás Maduro as the winner.
The proclamation is rejected by the opposition, which claims the triumph of its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, which is why he decided not to participate in this vote
