Venezuela’s ruling party claims to choose elections as an opposition boycott

Venezuela’s ruling party celebrates what it described as a “prevailing victory” of regional and parliamentary elections, which were boycotted by the majority of opposition parties.

The Electoral Board (CNE), which is dominated by government loyalists, says candidates for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) – President Nicolas Maduro’s party – won the governor race in 23 of the 24 countries in the country.

According to CNE, the ruling coalition also won 82.68% of the votes filed for the National Assembly, Venezuela’s legislative body.

The main opposition parties called the Fars elections. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said turnout was below 15%.

“More than 85% of the Venezuelans did not obey this regime and said” no, “Machado told those who abstained.

Independent journalists who have visited polling stations throughout the day said they did not see queues and fewer people than for the presidential election last July.

In the meantime, CNE has drawn the conclusions of 42.6%.

The opposition has long been questioning the independence of CNE, led by Elvis Amoroso, a former legal council of President Maduro.

CNE came for a widespread international criticism last year when he announced the Maduro as the winner in the presidential election without at all providing detailed voting tals to support their request.

Meanwhile, Venezuela’s opposition has been publishing Tallies, who gathered with the help of official election observers, who have shown that her candidate Edmundo Gonzalez is the prevailing winner.

Against the backdrop of the wave of repression and arrests that followed the presidential election, Gonzalez went to exile in Spain.

Machado, who threw her weight behind the presidential hope Edmundo Gonzalez after she was banned from running for public office, remained in Venezuela.

She was the main defender of boycotting the legislative and governorial elections on Sunday, stating that the result of the July presidential election should be respected before new elections were held.

“We voted on July 28. On May 25, we will not vote,” she said in a video message shared earlier this month.

However, a handful of opposition politicians were running for office, arguing that leaving the field open to government candidates was a mistake.

Among them were former Presidential candidate Henrice Caprilez, Zulia Governor Manuel Rosales and Juan Requiens, who was closed by the Maduro government for being claimed to have been involved in a 2018 drone attack against the president.

Caprilez told the Spanish daily El Pais that for him “Voting in Venezuela is an expression of resistance, of stability, not to give up.”

Their decision to stand in the election was criticized by those who were calling for a boycott, with Machado saying they had “passed the cause”.

With low turnout, PSUV’s President Maduro Party sails to win in 23 of the 24th Governor Races, compared to the 20 publications of the governor he had previously held.

According to the preliminary results of the legislative elections, the coalition supports President Maduro won an absolute majority of 285 seats.

But three politicians at the opposition party of Henrice Caprilez were also voted in the National Assembly, including Caprilez himself.

Maduro welcomed the result as “Victory of Peace and Stability” and celebrates the fact that his party regained control over the United States, and more special Barinas, his predecessor’s home condition and political mentor, Hugo Chavez.

Only the state of the leather will already be in opposition hands after the re -election of the opposition candidate Alberto Galindes.

Sunday’s vote was preceded by a wave of arrests, in which more than 70 people with ties to the opposition detained for “planning to sabotage the election”.

Among the detainees is Juan Pablo Guanipa, 60 years old, a close ally of Maria Corina Machado. The Interior Minister accused him of being “one of the leaders of this terrorist network”, which he claims to have intended to break the election by planting bombs on key objects.

Machado said his arrest and those of dozens of others are “state terrorism, clean and simple.”

Venezuelan voters were also asked to choose representatives of the ESEKIB, territory, long administered and controlled by neighboring Guiana, for which Venezuela claims for her own.

The territorial dispute was presented by the Guiana of the International Court of Justice, which ordered Venezuela to refrain from holding elections for representatives of the region, an order that the Maduro government denies.

As Venezuela did not control the essay, there were no polling stations in the territory, nor the people living there were given a chance to vote.

Instead, voters in a small neighborhood, explicitly created by Venezuela at the border, were asked to vote, which would only have symbolic value.

Neil Vilamizar, Admiral, loyal to President Maduro, has won the unusual vote and will now be named “Governor of the Ezekibo” by the Venezuelan government, although there is no power or control over the territory that remains in the Hanean hands.

The President of Guyana, Irfaan Ali, denied this move as “scandalous, fake, propagandist, opportunistic” and stated that “it would do anything to ensure that our territorial integrity and sovereignty was maintained intact.”