South America
The electoral authority speaks to Maduro party in Venezuela Sieg
The opposition described the election in Venezuela as a farce and called for boycott – shortly before the vote, more than 70 members were arrested.
According to the Lini-Strieen election authority (CNE), the government camp has achieved a clear victory in the parliamentary and regional elections in Venezuela. According to preliminary results, President Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government party was around 82.7 percent of the votes, as the CNE announced on Monday, according to the state news agency AVN.
According to the electoral authority of the South American country, smaller opposition parties accounted for around 17 percent of the votes. The participation was around 43 percent. President Maduro celebrated the outcome of the election in front of followers in the capital of Caraca as the “victory of peace and stability”. 23 out of 24 governors’ positions went to the government camp candidates.
The largest opposition parties had called for the boycott of the elections in the authoritarian Venezuela. They criticized the elections as a farce. According to the opposition, the voting majority of voting remained away – only around 15 percent would have cast their vote.
Many oppositionally arrested
The election was preceded by a wave of arrests against the opposition. Most recently, according to the Interior Ministry, the security forces had arrested more than 70 people, including the prominent opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa. The authoritarian government in Caracas accuses them of having planned terrorist attacks on messages, hospitals, police guards and transformers to disturb the urn.
In the elections, around 21 million Venezuelans were able to vote on the 285 MPs of Parliament, 24 governors and numerous mayors, city councilors and local MPs. For the first time, an official was also elected for the controversial border region Essequibo. Venezuela claims the area belonging to the neighboring country of Guayana. Guayana rejects the claims.
Law allegations against the government
Only around ten months ago, head of state Maduro had been confirmed in office in a controversial election. At that time, the opposition claimed victory for itself and accused the government. The United States, the EU and many Latin American states also doubt the official election result and instead consider the opposition candidate Edmundo González, who has now lived in exile Spanish.
Venezuela suffers from mismanagement, corruption and sanctions. A good seven million people-around a quarter of the population-have left the once wealthy oil country in recent years.
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Source: Stern
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