US EditionFarsa in Local Elections in Venezuela: Voting without Choosing
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“Votes, but you don’t choose,” says one gentleman to his neighbor, who nods and adds: “The government chooses the one it wants.” This is the voice of many Venezuelans who were called on this Sunday, July 27, to elect 335 mayors in a municipal election marked by scepticism and distrust in an electoral process controlled by the National Electoral Council (CNE). An institution, by the way, harshly criticized for adhering to the designs of the Nicol…
Venezuela consolidates its democratic community-based system. On the day of the July 27 municipal elections, more than 21 million voters will define mayors and councillors to advance the model of the country they build from their territories. This day more than a routine local election, constitutes a political laboratory where popular participation, regional geopolitics and defense of national sovereignty converge. Numbers show the magnitude of …
The president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, said this Sunday that the Venezuelan people are an example for the whole universe of deepening democracy, strengthening peace and compliance with the Constitution. The declarations were offered after voting in the Miguel Antonio Caro Educational Complex in Catia, Caracas. “When there are countries that only seek to destroy our beloved homeland, we tell the world that Venezuela…
Today, July 27, Venezuela is holding elections again. Some elections that, like those of a year ago for the presidency and those of two months ago for the governors, are a farce. When I say that they are a farce, I mean that in reality no political power is being disputed: they are part of the dictatorship’s manual to confuse, divide and consolidate its attempt to remain in power by force. They are celebrated, macabrely, to an exact year of the …
National Guards in Venezuelan Municipal Elections, Caracas, July 27, 2025. GABY ORAA / REUTERS This Sunday, July 27, almost a year to the day after the highly contested re-election of President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelans are called to the polls to elect mayors and municipal councillors. The enthusiasm is not at the rendezvous, as the overwhelming victory of the Unified Socialist Party, the formation in power, is acquired in advance. Weakened by…
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Noticias ao MinutoSeveral Caracas voting assemblies are currently under the influence of voters, who are going to elect 335 mayors and 2,471 main councillors and the same number of alternates. The elections take place one year after the presidents of 28 July 2024, where Nicolas Maduro was announced President of Venezuela until 2031. The opposition challenged the results and insisted that Edmundo González Urrutia was the winner, claiming that the National Electora…
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