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Marksman_91

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1. Oh, by the way, there's one more thing you should know
Sat Jul 26, 2014, 11:16 AM
Jul 2014

Last Sunday the PSUV held elections among its militants to choose the new regional delegates of the party. And out of the little more than 7 million people registered to vote in the party's commissions, only between 10-15% of its voters participated. These are not numbers I'm making up, these were said by one of the most pro-Chavista bloggers in one of the most pro-Chavista sites, Aporrea.org. His name is Nicmer Evans. Here's the link to the article: http://www.aporrea.org/poderpopular/a191879.html The title reads "The Abstention in the PSUV party." What's interesting is that different chavista big-heads have all given different (but all unofficial) numbers regarding how many voted. Some said it was around 2 million, while other analysts say it was less than a million. Either way, the PSUV has sure taken its sweet time to release any official numbers regarding how many voted. It's been already almost a week since then, and we still got nothing. Even during the elections for the new representatives in the National Assembly the numbers were given in less than a day. Hell, in any developed nation those numbers would've surely been released surely in less than a week. I think the level of abstention is so bad that the PSUV is too embarrassed to show them any time soon, and probably wants to give them a make-over before they do, so that they don't look THAT bad.

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