Venezuela’s ruling party claims to win, despite the boycott of the opposition

Venezuela’s ruling party notes what it called the “overwhelming victory” in the regional and parliamentary elections, which boycotted most opposition parties.

The Electoral Council (CNE), which is dominated by state loyalists, says that the candidates for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) – President Nicolas Maduro Party – won the governor’s race in 24 of the country.

According to CNE, the ruling coalition also received 82.68% of the vote, which was given by the National Assembly, the Venezuelan legislative body.

The main opposition parties called the election “farce”. Opposition leader Maria Karina Machad said the turnout was below 15%.

“More than 85% of Venezuelans disobeyed this regime and said” no, “Machada said of those who abstained.

Independent journalists who visited polling stations during the day said they had not seen fewer people than in the July presidential election.

Meanwhile, the CNE set out 42.6%.

The opposition has long questioned the independence of CNE, headed by Elvis Amaros, a former legal lawyer of President Maduro.

Last year, CNE came to broad international criticism when Maduro announced the winners of the presidential election, without providing a detailed vote to support his requirements.

Venezuela’s opposition, meanwhile, published a vote, which gathered with the help of official election voters, which showed that his candidate Edmund Gonzalez won.

Among the wave of repression and arrests, which followed the presidential election, Gonzalez went into exile to Spain.

Machado, who threw his weight behind the reliable President Edmund Gonzalez after she was banned from running for a state position, remained in Venezuela.

She was the main supporter of the boycott in the legislative and governorship elections this Sunday, saying that as a result of the July presidential election, it was necessary to follow before the new elections are held.

“We voted on July 28.

However, a handful of opposition politicians ran for the post, claiming to leave the field open to government candidates was a mistake.

Among them were former presidential candidate Henrike Capriles, Zulia Manuel Governor Rosales and Juan, who went to the Maduro government for allegedly involved in the 2018 drone attack on the president.

Capriles told the Spanish daily El Pais that “Venezuela’s vote is an expression of resistance, stability, not refusing.”

Their decision to speak in the elections was criticized by those who called for a boycott and Machado said he “betrayed the case.”

With a decrease in turnout, the PSUV party Maduro sailed to win 24 of the 24 races of the governors, compared to the 20 reports of the governor he had previously conducted.

According to preliminary results of the legislative elections, Maduro Coalition President received an absolute majority of 285 places.

But three politicians from the Henrique Capriles opposition party were also voted in the National Assembly, including Capriles.

Maduro took the result as a “victory of peace and stability” and noted the fact that his party resumed control over Zulia’s states and, in particular, Barinas, his predecessor in the office and political teacher Hugo Chavez.

Now only the state of the code will be in the hands of the opposition after the re -election of Albert Galindes opposition candidate.

On Sunday, a wave of arrests, which had more than 70 people with references to the opposition, was detained on Sunday, allegedly for “sabotage planning”.

Among the detainees are Juan Pablo Guanip, 60 years old, close ally Maria Karina Machada. The Interior Minister accused him of “one of the leaders of this terrorist network”, which, he said, thought to disrupt the elections by planting bombs on key polling stations.

Machado said his arrest and dozens of others were “state terrorism, pure and simple.”

Venezuelan voters also asked to select representatives in the SS region, the territory that has long been managing and controlled by the neighboring Guyana, which Venezuela claims its own.

The territorial dispute was submitted to Guyana to the International Court, which ordered Venezuela to refrain from holding elections for representatives of the region, whose order the Maduro government is not amenable.

Since Venezuela does not control the essay, there were no polling stations in the territory, and the people who live there did not get the opportunity to vote.

Instead, voters in a small area, clearly created for the purpose of the Venezuelan border, asked to cast their voice, which will only have symbolic value.

Neil Vilamizar, Admiral, loyal to President Maduro, won an unusual vote and will now be announced by the Venezuelan Governor “Governor of the Essay”, although he has no power and control over the territory remaining in Huyan’s hands.

Guyana Irfaan President Ali has announced this step as “scandalous, false, propagandist, conjunctural” and stated that “will do everything to ensure our territorial integrity and sovereignty to preserve the intact.”