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Marea Socialista to Launch Independent Parliamentary Candidates, Proposes Citizens' Audit
http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/11375Trotskyist Chavista collective, Marea Socialista (MS), has announced that it would be fielding its own candidates independent of the governing Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in this year's upcoming parliamentary elections.
Formerly a current within the PSUV, MS declared that it had already applied to the country's National Electoral Council for the right to its own candidate list and is currently awaiting the body's decision.
MS leader Nicomar Evans stated that the group's decision was motivated by the "necessity of a critical and self-critical vision" towards the revolutionary process in which "critiques can be formulated and the course corrected".
In this vein, he indicated that MS candidates must be committed to realizing "a public citizen's audit in order to detect fraudulent elements in the allotment of dollars," referring to widespread fraud among private firms, who pocket government-issued preferential dollars and change them on the booming black market, in lieu of importing essential items.