Maduro Wins Venezuela's Election With 51% Of Votes

[French jurist]

Election results are quite easy to check (electronic vote + paper ballot).
Election was monitored by UNASUR, MERCOSUR, Carter Center, UNIORE & others.

Strangely enough, the 2009 coup in Honduras wasn't worth any thread on BAexpats.

Chavez was a populist and Maduro certainly is one. They developped relations with controversial leaders (Ahmadinejab for instance... While Halliburton is operating in Iran btw and nobody complains about that, jeje). The economical situation is a mess, lots of insecurity but it's important too to keep a balanced vision of the facts (less poverty, better Education, etc.). Let's not be blinded by our own political beliefs.

Still, this close to 50/50 result announces some instability (20% of the voters can call for a referendum, etc.), something Venezuela doesn't need. Let's hope that once the results will be certain, Capriles will have the maturity to accept its defeat.

Last, very few countries in a world have lived so many elections in the past 10/15 years. Despite the populism & such, no real fraud was detected.

This confirms that Latin America is writing a new page of its own history, with a strong loss of US influence, in a more multipolar world.

 

[Yogur griego]

Capriles will have the maturity to accept its defeat.

I didn't know objects could participate in elections.

 

[notebook.fix]

I'm somewhat skeptical that Maduro actually won. Somehow, it seems extremely suspicious that the difference was so little. From some of the comments made by Venezuelans that actually voted and from some expats, it sounds like they did cheat some at least, enough to sway the vote and win. It's unfortunate that one person has so much power. The governments in S. America put too much power on one person. Unfortunately, this is happening as we speak in my own country within the past thirty years.

YEs, Agreed..and also that for the first time they took the extra hours to anounce the winner...all those hours to fudge the numbers with their IT guy..VERY suspicious I say.

 

[scotttswan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJaF9bSKtLg

 

[Rich One]

Election results are quite easy to check (electronic vote + paper ballot).
Election was monitored by UNASUR, MERCOSUR, Carter Center, UNIORE & others.

Strangely enough, the 2009 coup in Honduras wasn't worth any thread on BAexpats.

Chavez was a populist and Maduro certainly is one. They developped relations with controversial leaders (Ahmadinejab for instance... While Halliburton is operating in Iran btw and nobody complains about that, jeje). The economical situation is a mess, lots of insecurity but it's important too to keep a balanced vision of the facts (less poverty, better Education, etc.). Let's not be blinded by our own political beliefs.

Still, this close to 50/50 result announces some instability (20% of the voters can call for a referendum, etc.), something Venezuela doesn't need. Let's hope that once the results will be certain, Capriles will have the maturity to accept its defeat.

Last, very few countries in a world have lived so many elections in the past 10/15 years. Despite the populism & such, no real fraud was detected.

This confirms that Latin America is writing a new page of its own history, with a strong loss of US influence, in a more multipolar world.

Frenchie, you belong to the leftist French students uprising in 68? well in 6 hours major CACEROLAZO in Caracas in support of Caprile to defend their Victory in spite of the Fraud.... civil Confrontation Ad Portas

 

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