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| Maduro le pinta una paloma a Venezuela por Rafael MIchelena |
Under these conditions, an opposition victory in December
might seem like a certainty. It’s not. During the 2010 legislative balloting,
the opposition won more votes than pro-government candidates but not a majority
of seats due to the design of the voting districts. As in that election, state
workers are now being pressured to vote for ruling party candidates who also
count on government financing and a propaganda boost via the many TV and radio
stations controlled by the government. Pollster Luis Vicente Leon said that
over 16 years in power, first Chavez and now Maduro have mastered the electoral
arts. “They fiercely control the institutions and the money which allow them to
become stronger through electoral engineering even when their support is
flagging,” Leon wrote in the Caracas daily El Universal. More…
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