Venezuelan Opposition Setting New Records in a Democratic Disaster [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuelan Opposition Setting New Records in a Democratic Disaster

By Arturo Rosales in Caracas, Axis of Logic
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Google “Venezuelan Opposition Primaries+2015” and you will see several articles in English from Fox News, Yahoo, International Business Times and this one by Reuters, amongst others.

All of these articles forecast that “this is the best chance the opposition has had in a decade to recoup control of the national parliament”. In other words, they continue to parrot what inept and uncharismatic politicians such as the Secretary General of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), Jesus “Chuo” Torrealba, says. In a carbon copy of the last national elections for mayoralties which, according to twice-defeated presidential candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski, the vote would be a plebiscite and Maduro would have to resign when the opposition won that particular vote.

In fact, the opposition lost by 11 points to Chavismo and only won control of 24% of the 335 mayoralties in the country. This was another opposition defeat - number 18 out of 19 - since Chávez won the presidency in December 1998.

Now the opposition is plunging headlong to its 19th defeat out of 20 elections since 1998 in key parliamentary elections in the final quarter of this year.

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