TeleSur's propaganda on Venezuela

[GatoGordo]

Everything You Need to Know About Elections for the Constituent Assembly

Venezuelans will head to the polls July 30 to elect representatives for the National Constituent Assembly, an initiative from President Nicolas Maduro to further develop the country's democracy and to help ease tensions with the opposition.

In the lead-up to the election, teleSUR takes a closer look at the voting process, how representatives will be chosen and what the new constituent assembly will mean for the future of Venezuela.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro presented the National Electoral Council, with his proposal for structuring the electoral bases through which constituent representatives will be elected. This will open the way for 540 constituent parliamentarians to be elected by the Venezuelan people in a manner that is "direct, secret, universal, territorial and sectoral."

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http://www.telesurtv.net/english/multimedia/Venezuelas-Constituent-Assembly-20170704-0037.html

How is the ANC (translation: giving Maduro dictatorial powers) going to "ease tensions" and "develop democracy"? Wouldn't recognizing the fair elections of 2015 and having local elections (Maduro cancelled them last year) "develop democracy" and "ease tensions"?

[David__77]

1. I don't understand why the opposition is boycotting the vote.

It seems terribly misguided to me. The opposition has boycotted an election before, which only resulted in being shut out of the parliament.

[Marksman_91]

2. That time was stupid

They boycotted a legitimate parliamentary election and it simply handed Venezuela to the PSUV on a silver platter. This "assembly", however, is completely illegitimate because the people were not consulted about it in a referendum previously, which is the only way to hold one. The PSUV and Maduro are basically giving a big FUCK YOU to the people and the Venezuelan constitution with this, and it's even made more chavistas break off with Maduro and his party, even several people that used to work under his administration. Boycotting it is the right thing to do.

[GatoGordo]

3. The opposition admits that that was a mistake to boycott years ago

Then again, they were not a unified front in those days.

Also, Chavez (like Maduro now) used what power he had to "ban" popular opposition candidates from running for public office. Maduro has one upped Chavez, and is now jailing opposition members for being "treasonous" (It helps when your Supreme Court, the TSJ, is hand picked lackeys from your party, the PSUV, and haven't voted EVER against a Chavez/Maduro dictate)

This ANC is a farce, and everybody except Chavistas don't give it any weight at all. It is a power grab, plain and simple.