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Post by scumbuster on Dec 7, 2015 17:39:04 GMT -5
CARACAS – The President of the National Electoral Council of Venezuela, Tibisay Lucena, announced on Sunday the opposition alliance Democratic Unity Roundtable, or MUD, as winners of the legislative elections with a total of 99 opposition legislators against 46 pro-government Chavistas.
Tibisay reported the voter turnout was an overwhelming 74.5 percent and 96.03 percent votes have been counted.
The MUD won 99 seats gaining a comfortable absolute majority in the new National Assembly comprising 167 seats.
The opposition alliance fell just one seat of a qualified majority of three-fifths of the seats required for undertaking fundamental reforms in the country’s politics.
Meanwhile, the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela won 46 seats representing a loss of more than half of the 100 seats in the current Parliament.
Tibisay noted 19 legislators are yet to be adjudicated, besides 19 other non-adjudicable ones.
“We have decided, we have wanted, as we have done in other elections, to give the national picture,” said Lucena.
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Post by barrumundi on Dec 7, 2015 17:57:34 GMT -5
Good onya Vennies. Congratulations! It will be interesting now to see what happens next, but change will be very slow.
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Post by gallito on Dec 8, 2015 14:04:27 GMT -5
Nici's defeat speech
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Post by billyb on Dec 13, 2015 0:31:51 GMT -5
I gotta say, I am shocked that they, one, let the elections go ahead and, two, they actually accepted the results. Then again, it was such a thrashing that once they went ahead with them, there was no way they could steal the result, even if retard jimmy carter would still have certified a stolen election as fair.
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