DOUGLAS GAVRAS
Buenos Aires, Argentina (Folhapress) – In a claim marked by the absence of voters and opposition boycott, Nicolás Maduro supporters won on Sunday (25) 23 of the 24 state governments in Venezuela and project an absolute majority in the National Assembly, according to the first official bulletin.
The PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) won in all states except COJEDS, and the coalition of Maduro obtained 82.68% of the votes in the national lists of Parliament, according to the CNE (National Electoral Council),.
The regime has recovered the government of three key states: Zulia (on the Colombian border), Nueva Esparta (which includes Margarita Island) and Barinas (Hugo Chavez’s homeland). The only victor of the opposition was Alberto Galindez, reelected by the state of Cojedes (in the center of the country). He created another party after being expelled from the traditional PJ (Primero Justicia).
The data were released early in the morning, from the investigation of about 90% of the electoral tables. It is still necessary to wait for the scrutiny of the results of each electoral district.
The Venezuelans returned to the polls in the first vote since the contested presidential election that led to a third term of Nicolás Maduro last July, with various evidence of fraud.
Contrary to the research institutes -which speak of record of abstention -and opposition leader María Corina Machado -that released a video after the end of voting saying that 85% of voters did not vote -the CNE announced that the attendance was 42.6%.
Despite the low participation, the electoral institution decided, at the last minute, to extend the voting period, which was scheduled to end at 18h local (19h in Brasilia), claiming that there were a large number of people in the queues.
“Today we demonstrate the strength of Chavismo and that these people managed to resist,” said Maduro.
According to data released by the CNE, 4,553,484 votes were given to the coalition of nine parties that supports the Chavista Grande Polisto Simón Bolivar regime.
For the opposition, there were 344,422 votes (6.25%) for the democratic alliance and 285,501 (5.18%) for the UNTC single alliance led by Henrique Capriles. Fuerza Vecinal Formation obtained 2.57%, with 141,566 votes. Other smaller parties and null votes totaled 182,351 votes, equivalent to 3.31% of the total.
On Monday (26), Capriles published in his X profile that the result was predictable and that abstention won in an electoral process marked by “distrust, disappointment, anger and fear.” “The regime celebrates today.”
“I will represent them with strength and determination. Maduro and their leadership may want to seem victorious, but they are not. What happened yesterday does not change the economic, social and political crisis. The country has not woke up better today. The country continues its search to restore its democracy and the full exercise of the rights of its people,” he wrote.
In addition to Capriles, the opposition in the Venezuelan parliament should feature Stalin González, Bernabé Gutiérrez and Timoteo Zambrano, who decided to participate in the dispute, arguing that it was necessary to defend spaces.
The elections first included the Essiquibo region, an area in dispute over a century with Guyana, where a Chavista governor was elected who, in practice, will have no direct authority over the territory, since he is under the control of the neighboring country.
The elected was the military Neil Villamizar, a Navy Career Officer, who promised to bring “Venezuelanity” to the territory. As the territory is under dispute, the elections took place in electoral centers in the neighboring state of Bolivar.
