Ten months after the questioned re -election of the president Nicolás Maduro And the riots that followed him, are now chosen 285 deputies of the National Assembly and 24 governorates.
The opposition leader María Corina Machado called his supporters to Does not voteR In the midst of your fraud complaint in the presidential presidentials of July 28. “When it’s yes, it’s yes. When it’s not,” he wrote in X.
The low influx in the voting centers prevailed in the main cities of the country, AFP journalists found. However, the National Electoral Council (CNE), accused of serving Maduro, postponed the closing of the vote until 7 pm (23.00 GMT hours).
“In my hands”
“I’m not going to vote because we must leave this regime,” he said Mirian Cristina Péreza 73 -year -old retired educator in San Cristóbal (west). “This is for them to see that we are in democracy when everyone knows that it is not.”
“I always vote because that is the only thing in my hands,” said Oliver Gutiérrez, 38 -year -old sales advisor in Maracaibo, once oil capital of Venezuela. “I’m not happy, but what else can we do.”
Anyway, regardless of the participation index, abstention guarantees that Chavism is imposed on most positions to shield even more the power of Ripe.
The speaker Delphos projected that the day will close with a participation of 16% of the 21 million voters called to vote.
“When the adversary retires from the field, one advances and takes ground,” said the president after voting, by recalling other calls of opposition abstention.
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“Silent declaration”
The elections are held just days after the arrest of the leader Juan Pablo Guanipa, near Machado, and other opponents accused of integrating a “terrorist network” to sabotage these elections.
The Government deployed more than 400 thousand troops for voting security, restricted the border crossings and suspended the air connection with Colombia.
The image of deserted voting centers is far from the crowded presidential ones, who ended up in protests against the proclamation of Maduro with 28 dead and more than 2,400 arrests.
“What the world saw today was an act of civic courage. A silent statement, but forceful that the desire for change, dignity and future remains intact,” said Edmundo González, Maduro’s rival in July.
A small opposition split unknown this call and participated in Sunday’s elections. It is headed by the twice Henrique Capriles presidential candidate, who is looking for a seat in Parliament.
“What is better, have a voice and fight within the Parliament or as we have done on other occasions to retire from the electoral process and leave Parliament to the government totally?” Capriles said after voting.
“Accept sovereignty”
Chavismo has 253 of the 277 seats of the National Assemblyprecisely after the opposition boycotted the legislative past in 2020.
It also controls 19 of the total of 23 governments of states.
The election now included the vote by authorities for ESEQUIBO matters, the territory rich in oil in dispute with Guyana.
The governor and eight parliamentarians are chosen, in principle with a symbolic mandate because Guyana manages this rich area of 160 thousand km2.
They are summoned to vote just over 21 thousand voters in centers located in the Venezuelan state of Bolívar (southeast).
Guyana asked the ICJ to ratify the borders established in an award of 1899, but Venezuela appeals to the Geneva agreement signed in 1966 before the Independence of Guyana of the United Kingdom and that sat the foundations for a negotiated solution.
“Earlier rather than later he will have to sit with me to talk and accept Venezuelan sovereignty,” Maduro told his Guyano Paris Irfaan Ali.