Thursday, October 19, 2017

Venezuela's Empty Elections


The opposition has rejected the results and has rightly demanded an audit. The government's pre-election shenanigans included disqualifying the opposition's most popular candidates, keeping losers of primaries on the ballot to confuse voters, moving 200 polling places at the last minute, selective power outages, and allowing no independent outside observers. Moreover, Maduro mandated that any winning candidate must swear loyalty to the constituent assembly that has usurped the powers of the opposition-controlled legislative assembly.. More…

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