Venezuela's ruling party wins surprise victory in regional elections

[sandensea]

Source: NPR

Candidates in Venezuela aligned with the movement founded by the late President Hugo Chávez have claimed most of the country's governorships, despite projections that the opposition would win. The results were likely to result in fresh unrest in the troubled nation.

Reporting from Caracas, NPR's Philip Reeves says: "Polls said Venezuela's opposition were going to be big winners in these elections. Instead, the ruling Socialist Party are now celebrating what Maduro calls 'a decisive victory,' after taking 17 of the country's 23 state governorships."

Opposition politicians are refusing to recognize the results of the poll, Philip reports.

"Maduro's critics want to know how his unpopular government secured this outcome amid an economic crisis that's produced chronic shortages of food and medicine and the collapse of the currency," he says.

The results were announced late Sunday by Tibisay Lucena, president of the National Election Council.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/16/557977291/venezuelas-ruling-party-wins-surprise-victory-in-regional-elections

[coolsandy]

1. Maybe their voters know foreign interference when they see it and vote against it?

[ancianita]

3. Exactly. Cubans, Venezuela's allies, reinforced that understanding to me on my recent trip there.

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[FBaggins]

2. They want to know how the government secured those results?

Likely the same way that every communist dictatorship has done it for decades.

[coolsandy]

4. I am beginning to trust their elections more than our own.

[snooper2]

9. of course you would LOL

[ck4829]

10. You're not the only one and even Venezuela's government is a joke

So that makes it all the worse.

The Adam Lanza and Dylann Roof Wannabes of the "alt-right" wouldn't have any access to decision making government functions in any other country, yet they are associates of the majority here in the US thanks to an election where 62 million is somehow greater than 65 million.

[JI7]

5. fuck maduro

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Maduro did dirty tricks like moving long established polling locations 48 hours before election. .nt

[David__77]

7. I think it's likely that Trump's recent comments were helpful to PSUV.

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[Joe Chi Minh]

8. It surely shouldn't have been a surprise, but

our Western media pitch their own favoured story. Why would the masses vote for people they know have been sabotaging Maduro's Government ?

[Fred Sanders]

11. Does not surprise me. Folks do not want to go back to being ruled by the military and oligarths.

They will starve before giving up this hard earned democracy. Too bad the populous working vote never vote correctly......