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Live Updates: Venezuela's National Assembly Elections | News | teleSUR EnglishLive Updates: Venezuela's National Assembly Elections

Stay up to date with the latest information and tweets from Venezuela on a crucial day. All times are Caracas local time.
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Live Updates: Venezuela's National Assembly Elections | News | teleSUR English




National Assembly elections are being held today in Venezuela! the PSUV has a serious challenger this year and may be endanger of loosing their majority in the Assembly. Follow here for live updates (the link above)
 
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Hopefully Venezuela decides to get rid of their failed government.
 
Leaders of Venezuela's opposition were celebrating victory ahead of official results in legislative elections that could alter the country's balance of power after 17 years of socialist rule.

Hours after polls closed, several opposition leaders took to the internet to announce that their sources showed they had won a majority of seats in the National Assembly for the first time since 1998.

Opposition supporters were seen celebrating. But with no official results released and the ruling socialist party not commenting, their claims could not be confirmed.

President Nicolas Maduro had repeatedly vowed in recent weeks to take to the streets and defend the socialist system built by his mentor the late President Hugo Chavez if his party lost, though on Sunday, he appeared to change his tone.

"In Venezuela, peace and democracy must reign," he said after voting in a working-class neighbourhood of Caracas.
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Venezuela opposition claims victory ahead of results
 
The pink tide may be turning. First the Argentinian far right made electoral victories now the Venezuelan opposition. This is a major setback for the Bolivarian revolution and can be viewed as a slap in the face to Maduro.
 
David_N said:
... and it appear's you're wrong. :)
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The Venezuelan opposition to the PSUV only claims "fraud" or "unfair elections" if they are on the loosing side... They've always done it since the early 2000's but now they seem to say they are fair because they won this time...
 
Good for Venezuela for getting rid of the socialist plague.

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TheDemSocialist said:
The Venezuelan opposition to the PSUV only claims "fraud" or "unfair elections" if they are on the loosing side... They've always done it since the early 2000's but now they seem to say they are fair because they won this time...
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The opposition won beyond the margin of fraud. I guess this time the opposition is on the tightening side as opposed to the "loosing" side.
 
great news! let's hope it leads to actual change for the people of Venezuela. freedom of the press would be a good start.
 
SDET said:
The opposition won beyond the margin of fraud. I guess this time the opposition is on the tightening side as opposed to the "loosing" side.
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So its only fraudulent if its a close election?
 
Opposition won.

Hopefully, they can begin pushing these leftist, kleptocratic scum out.

TheDemSocialist said:
The pink tide may be turning. First the Argentinian far right made electoral victories now the Venezuelan opposition. This is a major setback for the Bolivarian revolution and can be viewed as a slap in the face to Maduro.
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Good, hopefully a kick in the balls is next.
 
The big news out of Venezuela’s Dec. 6 legislative elections is the victory of the opposition United Democratic Roundtable (MUD) over the incumbent United Socialist Party (PSUV) of President Nicolás Maduro. Shockingly, the MUD achieved a two-thirds supermajority in the National Assembly, which, according to the constitution, could allow it to remove Supreme Court judges (Art.265), appoint key officials such as an independent attorney general and a national comptroller (Art.279), and approve amendments to the constitution itself, subject to ratification by referendum (Art.348).

That supermajority is razor-thin. The MUD claims 112 seats out of 167 — exactly two-thirds. Anything less than perfect unity and the list of powersavailable to the MUD diminishes considerably. But how did the MUD achieve this landslide win in an electoral environment widely regarded as stacked in favor of the PSUV? A variety of factors were at play, and the MUD caught some remarkable breaks.
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Here’s How the Opposition Got a Two-Thirds Supermajority in Venezuela
 
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