The great patriotic pole (GPP) obtained 4,553,484 votes, 82.6% percent, while opposition parties reached 17.3%.
The official data were released at the close of a day marked by the opposition division -the majority decided not to present -, complaints of repression, low participation and the unprecedented inclusion of the Esequibo as an electoral territory.
Elections in Venezuela: Chavismo was proclaimed winner
These elections also took place after the crisis of 2024, when Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner of the presidential ones amid fraud complaints.
Specifically, Venezuelans were called this Sunday, May 25 to choose a total of 569 charges, including 285 deputies to Parliament, 260 regional legislators and 24 governors, including that of the Esequibo, a territory of almost 160,000 square kilometers in dispute with Guyana, which controls it.
At the end of the day, Chavismo claimed to have achieved a “great victory” in the regional and parliamentary elections. However, that statement took place before the closing of the voting centers, since the National Electoral Council (CNE) extended the process.
“Another great victory of today. Today all Venezuela, (…) with the force of the vote, has defeated fascism in Venezuela throughout the line and is buried by the force of democracy”said the head of the Chavismo campaign command, Jorge Rodríguez, also president of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament).
For Rodríguez, vice president of communication and electoral issues of the ruler United Socialist Party (PSUV), the Caribbean country has given “a lesson to the entire world about force, power, intensity, of the depth with which the people of Venezuela live their democracy.”
“Today triumphed, with indeclinable force, Venezuelan democracy. Of course, we cannot give any kind of results, (…) but what is in sight does not need glasses,” said the deputy, who asked to wait for the results of the common agency, controlled by officials related to Chavism.
In his opinion, those who called the abstention – in reference to opponents as the recognized former deputy María Corina Machado – did it “in a silly way, Stupidly, “since, he said, it has” happened exactly the opposite. “
Massive abstention in the legislative elections of Venezuela: María Corina Machado celebrated the “wisdom and courage” of the people
Less than a year after the latest presidential elections –marked by the irregularities and complaints of fraud– Venezuela He returned to the polls this Sunday to choose his regional and parliamentary representatives. However, with the aim of expressing discontent with the regime of Nicolás Maduro and the Lack of legitimacy of his government, the opposition called its followers to be absent and not participate in the elections.
The strategy mainly driven by the opposition leader María Corina Machado It gave results: according to data from the MEGANALYSIS, the participation was barely superior to the 12%. The data is even more striking to keep in mind that in the July 28 elections last year Almost 59% of the population mobilized to vote.
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In these elections -whose date was advanced to move from page after last year’s scandal -21.4 million Venezuelans were summoned to choose 569 positions, including 285 deputies to the National Assembly, 24 governors and 260 state legislators.
Given this scenario of mass abstention, the regime of Ripe He went out to give a desperate response and the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, announced after the 6 in the afternoon that the voting schedule would be extended for one more hour.
Through a publication on your X account, Machado He celebrated the abstention of Venezuelans and said: “The wisdom and courage of the Venezuelan people are immense and moving. Another great lesson for the world. For everyone,” wrote the political reference after calling citizens to stay at home and Reject what he called “a farce, a trap.”
Nicolás Maduro urged Venezuelans to vote “for peace and life”
On the opposite side, Maduro urged Venezuelans to vote “for the peace and life”In these elections, which he described as the Choice “number 32” held “in 26 years” in the Caribbean country. “He arrived on Sunday, May 25, Blessed Sunday, of democratic and free choice of Venezuela,” said the president in a message broadcast on the Venezuelan state television channel.
Anyway, his message had no effect among voters, who mostly decided not to vote. In addition to the protest message that this action implies, it also demonstrates little confidence in the system, ten months after the July 28 elections, which were marked by strong fraud complaints. Although the ruling has never shown the minutes that certify the results, the National Electoral Council (CNE) He proclaimed him winner of the elections and was sworn in last January by the Parliament of the official majority as president for the 2025-2031 period.
The president said Sunday that he will boost an electoral reform to apply a “communal circuits” voting system.
“I have spoken for the Constitution Reform Commission and we have agreed prepare a more inclusive consultation and debate process, more open, more dialoguemore time, to deliver in January to the new National Assembly the constitutional reform project, ”Maduro said in a statement to the press after voting in the questionable parliamentary and legislative elections.
Source: Ambito
