Despite the Venezuelan Electoral Act, under which "the more mass (score), less mush (MEPs)", despite threats from President spray and actions of the PSUV, which used government machinery to campaign (and followed by evening on television so the day of the election), that installed red awnings, rojito a few meters from the polling stations in full election process, despite all that live in the elections of September 26 to elect deputies to the National Assembly and the Latin American Parliament, the Bureau of the unit (ie, the Venezuelan opposition) reached 65 seats in Parliament. Enough votes to deprive the most qualified Chavez and absolute power to legislate.
is easy to say, and it seems a very significant election results ... if not the popular vote because the opposition passed a few points to Chavez, sparking anger barely concealed the Maximum Leader. Yesterday, a few hours of "victory" for which he congratulated his supporters, the President lashed out against RFI journalist toughened woman asked the same question that the world is done at this time. How So they drew fewer votes, but have more representatives in the National Assembly?
much for 2012. This country is unpredictable, at least electorally speaking. And Chavez has shown an impressive ability to get up and reinvent itself, where popularity is on the ground (or do not remember what mission it occurred in one of the moments in which his image was hardest hit?).
checkbook We'll see if Venezuela is knocking at stud. I, for one, I plead optimistic and leave you with this anecdote election:
Sunday I walked to my polling place and found a block of it with a big red awning that sheltered about 15 people with red shirts, pulling a red drink red wine cellar (do not exaggerate the presence of color in the scene) . Now back to vote, and before the astonished gaze of other pedestrians who were passing the big red tent, snapped in high, clear and intelligible voice
"That is political opportunism.
What followed was a long sausage of insults from the group dressed in red, which is sheltered from the midday sun under the big red tent. Only play the part that is reproducible:
1)-That is Venezuela.
2) - Viva Chavez!
3) - Out skinny!
4) -! You're going to have to get out of here!
On Monday 28 September in the morning the CNE issued the first newsletter with the partial results of the parliamentary elections the day before, I knew the answer to sentences 1 and 4 that I cried from the red awning :
1) This is Venezuela: Venezuela is Right ... plural, multi-colored, democratic, free and thinking.
4) -! You're going to have to get out of here!: Also correct. But when Felipe de Borbon and Letizia decide to leave me and offered me to marry him and we move together to the Palacio de La Zarzuela. I mean, I'm outta here ... when I please. Not because you want it.
Because this is also my country. And 52% of Venezuelans who think like me.