The state electoral board has yet to officially confirm the full results.
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“We have come with our morals and our ethics to recognize these adverse results, to accept them and to say to our Venezuela that the constitution and democracy have triumphed”.
A supporter of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro listens to a radio in Plaza Bolivar square in Caracas, December 6, 2015.
The opposition’s victory in Venezuelan parliamentary elections was democratic, but it will not have a massive impact on the country’s political landscape, the head of the Russian upper house’s worldwide committee, Konstantin Kosachev, said Monday.
However there has been no confirmation of that from the National Electoral Council.
Maduro said that this time the leftist forces were victims of maneuvers against the country as the economic war, the hoarding and price speculation of merchandise and staples, which made an impression on the public. Many seemed stunned win. He was in fact detested by most Venezuelans.
The MUD capitalised on discontent among Venezuela’s 29 million people, who suffer the world’s highest inflation and product shortages.
Some MEPs have welcomed the change of direction, saying they have already forged links with the MUD coalition in Venezuela. One opposition leader was gunned down at a rally in November, and another received a 14-year jail sentence for allegedly inciting violence, a conviction that’s drawn criticism from worldwide human rights groups like Human Rights Watch.
“If they get a three-fifths majority [101 seats], well then they can actually do no-confidence votes on the ministers and the vice president, and that would give them significantly more power”.
“It’s a game-changer”, said Manuel Malaver a political analyst.
“We have lost a battle today, but the struggle to build a new society is just beginning”, he said.
President Nicolas Maduro has admitted defeat – the worst for the movement founded by late leader Hugo Chavez in 1999.
The opposition plans on making good on a variety of different campaign promises which they hope would result in a return to the rule of law.
Though it will not have the power to radically overhaul the economy from the legislature, the opposition is also promising new laws to stimulate the private sector and to roll back nationalisations. Adan Chavez, governor of the state, was booed as he went to vote, with a crowd gathering and yelling: “Thief!” at him as he entered the polling station.
Drier added, “The opposition hasn’t had a lot of wins like this”. But on Sunday night he softened his tone, urging his supporters to calmly regroup from the loss.
“I always remember the words of Leopoldo, who said: ‘The people will free me from these hand cuffs, ‘” she said, after the results were announced.
The government dismisses those charges as lies and frequently recalls USA support for a short-lived 2002 coup against Chavez.
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For Areaz, who was 8 years old when Chavez came to power, the defeat was unimaginable.
