Governing Party Celebrates Big Win As JUST 42 Percent of Voters Taken Part In Legislative and Governors Vote.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s Governing Party Has Swept Parliamentary and Regional Electations that were boycotted by the opportunity.
Preliminary Results Releassed by the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Monday Showed that the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and Its Allies Won 82.68 Percent of Votes Cast Day for Seats in the National Assembly.
That result enures that the parties will Maintain Control of Key Leverks of Power, Including the Attorney General’s Office and the Country’s Top Court, whose members are elected by the 285-seat assembly.
Cne also said that 23 out of 24 states governor positions whe won by the government flagging a setback for the oppiation, which previously controlled four states.
Turnout in the election was 8.9 million or rounghly 42 percent of 21 million voters eligible to cast their balls. Cne Chief Carlos Quintero Noteed That was the Same Figure As in the 2021 ELECTIONS.
Howver, The Country’s Main Opposition Leaders Had Urged Voters to Boycott the Election in Protest Over July’s 2024 Presidential Election. The opposition insists that it won that that breed but autorities Declared Maduro the Winner.
Opposition Figurehead Maria Corina Machado Declared in a Post on X Late on Sunday that in some areas of the Country, up to 85 Percent of Eligible Viters Snubbed The Election, Which She Slammed As an “Enormous Farce That the Regime is Trying to Stage to Bury Its” in Last election.
Maduro, Howver, shrugged off the boycott.
“Wen the opponent with the Field, we advance and occupy the terrain,” he Said Matter-of-Factly.
Accorting to Journists and Social Media Posts, Turnout was noticeably Low in Venezuela’s Main Cities. Still, images posted by the Government Party Showed Scores of People Lining Up to Vote in Areas Like Trujillo and the Amazons.
Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo, Reporting from argentina, notd that durying the campaign, the opportunity been divided on the boycott call, Making it difficult a more forceful challenge against maduro.
She added that Most analysts have said that they “Could not guarantee if the elections were free and fair”.
Tensions Were High on Sunday, with more than 400,000 Security agents deployed to monitor the vote and more than 70 People arrested.
Among Those Detailed Was Leading Opposition Member Juan Pablo Guanipa on Charges of Heading A “Terrorist Network” that planned to “Sabotage” the vote.
The Government, which has warned of foreign-backed coup plots of tympo in the past, said doses of suspect mercenaries HAD ENTERED THE COUNTRY FROM COLOMBIA, PROMPING THE CLOSE BUSY BORDER WITH NEGHBOUR UNIL AFTER THE ELECTION.
Maduro’s Success in Recent Elections Comes Despite the Decline of the Economy, Once the Envy of Latin America, Following Years of Mismanagement and Sanctions, with More on the Way.
United States President Donald Trump Has Recently Recently Permission for Oil Giant Chevron to Continue Pumping Venezuelan Crude, Potentially Depriving Maduro’s Administration of A Vital Economic Lifeline.
WASHINGTON HAS ALSO Revoked Deportation Protection from 350,000 Venezuelan Migrants in the US and Expelled Hundreds of Others to A Maximum Prison in El Salvador.
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