Madurismo suffered a political blow in the legislative and regional elections even though Victoria sang with her high -style: almost 58% of citizens in a position to vote stayed in their homes. The majority abstention is an important defeat for the government. The delay of National Electoral Council (CNE) To publicize the results, it was an eloquent sample that the situation was more disturbing than expected. “The best electoral system in the world. Venezuela is an example for the world and the entire universe“said the president of the agency, Elvis Amoroso, before the scrutiny of 93% of the tables given to the United Socialist Party (PSUV) was announced in the formation of the next National Assembly (AN, Congress). 82% of the vote represents about 4.5 million accessions to the ruling party on almost 21 million potential electors. The remaining 18% belongs to different opposition expressions who decided to accept the challenge of the polls, despite the adversities. The PSUV stayed with 23 of the 24 state governments at stake. Official television was not delayed to ensure that the numbers were “crawling.”
Venezuela repeated the scenes of July 28 during the night of the presidential controversial in the CNE proclaimed winner to Nicolás Maduro. The conclusions of the government and its opponents were found again in the antipodes. “85% of Venezuelans disobey the regime and said no,” María Corina Machado said, who had called the population to turn their backs on the electoral call. “Even public employees” disobeyed the “regime.” The right -wing leader devoted to abstention as a way to recompose her leadership. “Today you demonstrated who has the power. We are bending them step by step,” he told his followers through X.
The numbers offered by the CNE were “inflated“, According to the opposition that summoned disobedience and considered that more than some elections, Venezuelans behaved as in a non -working day. It looked more like a holiday than to a civic ritual. The scarce influx was documented on social networks from the first moment the electoral schools opened.
“Impressive battle”
The government was considered “winner” because, said the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, FThe “threats” and “neutralized” danger situations during the Sunday day. “Today we exhibit the great transparency and efficiency of the Venezuelan electoral system, Operation Republic fulfilled its schedule in accompaniment to the CNE.”
The PSUV had its modest party on the night of Caracas. There was no special enthusiasm among those who approached the Plaza Bolívar. Television also showed that there were few. Nicolás Maduro Guerrason of the “workers’ president” first greeted his father for having “defeated fascism.” “The future” and “Progress” has triumphed. The model, he added, “is that of Christ.” But the president let him speak first Jorge Rodríguezcampaign manager and elected legislator. “We went home by house, town by townto listen to the one who suffered and the one who had hope. ” It was, he said, an “impressive battle” achieved by “the noble, conscious and fierce people.” The triumph was achieved despite the economic sanctions of the United States and the actions that the “terrorists” had planned to “kill political leaders.” More than 50 people were arrested in the previous days.
Social Tiredness
The internal situation, marked by a New collapse of the bolivarthe official currency, against the dollar, The rebound in inflationwhich in April was 19%, and the resurgence of social discomfort, partly explain the numbers that the CNE gave. Edmundo González Urrutia He said from exile that Venezuelans did not “legitim” the “simulation” organized by the CNE. “Today we witnessed an event that tried to disguise himself as choice, but that failed to deceive either the country or the world.” According to the former presidential candidate “what the world saw today was an act of civic courage. A silent, but forceful statement, that the desire for change, dignity and future remains intact.” González Urrutia asked “all political actors” to “read this moment well” because, after what happened “The country changed.” The message is especially aimed at the opposition spectrum, which was again divided between vote and not vote.
Ricardo Ríos, of the power and strategy consultant, said the result calls into question Maduro’s aspirations to reform the Magna Carta. The president is forced to “reconfigure forces.” For the political scientist Santiago Rodríguez, “the citizen did not make sense to participate, he does not believe in the election because he feels that the results have already been determined a priori for what happened in the presidential elections and the non -recognition of the triumph of Edmundo González.”
The Esequibo
In turn, “symbolic” elections were carried out in the Esequibo, a territory of 160,000 square kilometers that is the object of a litigation with Guyana. Two parishes in the Bolívar state were those chosen by the CNE so that 21,403 voters first choose a governor and deputies for the so -called Guayana Esquiba. “The Esequibo has governor, Admiral Neil Villamizar. He will have all the budget support because the people won it,” Maduro celebrated, even knowing that this “victory” is purely symbolic.
The government refused to comply with the request for the International Court of Justice (CJI) to give up that purpose that revives bilateral tension. The Esequibo represents 70% of the surface of the neighboring country. Venezuela claims it by claiming historical reasons and with a marked interest in territorial wealth: oil, rich minerals, wood. Caracas recognizes as the only legal instrument to resolve this controversy with its neighbor the Geneva Agreement that was signed in 1966 with the British Crown, before Guyanese independence, which establishes bases for a negotiated solution. In 2018, Guyana filed a lawsuit against Caracas before the ICJ to resolve the controversy and the court declared himself competent to pronounce on the situation. The growth of bilateral tension causes concern among the residents of both countries. Maduro to his colleague from Guyana, Irfaan Ali, from “Exxonmobil employee”. However, he said his confidence that “sooner rather than later” he will have to sit down to talk with Caracas and “accept the sovereignty of Venezuela.”
