{"id":21990,"date":"2025-05-28T18:29:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T18:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uit-ci.org\/?p=21990"},"modified":"2025-05-28T18:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T18:29:01","slug":"venezuela-in-the-midst-of-high-abstention-the-government-carries-out-a-new-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/venezuela-in-the-midst-of-high-abstention-the-government-carries-out-a-new-fraud\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: In the midst of high abstention, the government carries out a new fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"
By\u00a0<\/i>the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSL), IWU-FI section in Venezuela<\/i><\/div>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0On Sunday, May 25th, legislative and regional elections were held in our country. The ruling\u00a0United Socialist Party of Venezuela\u00a0<\/i>(PSUV<\/i>) and its allies, according to the\u00a0National Electoral Council\u00a0<\/i>(CNE<\/i>), obtained 4,553,484 votes, corresponding to 82.6% of the electoral roll, while the parties of the different sectors of the bosses’ opposition obtained 17.3%, broken down as follows:\u00a0Democratic Alliance\u00a0<\/i>(AD<\/i>) obtained 344,422 (6.25%); the\u00a0A New Era-Union and Change\u00a0<\/i>(UNT-\u00danica<\/i>)\u00a0alliance, headed by Manuel Rosales and Henrique Capriles, obtained 285,501 votes (5.18%), and\u00a0Neighbourhood Force\u00a0<\/i>(FV<\/i>) took 141,566 votes (2.57%). The\u00a0CNE<\/i>\u00a0reported that abstention was at 57.4% of the total number of voters.<\/div>\n

The\u00a0PSUV<\/i>\u00a0won a majority of deputies to the National Assembly, with\u00a0the\u00a0AD<\/i>\u00a0winning 3 deputies, and\u00a0UNT-\u00danica<\/i>\u00a0another 3 deputies (namely Henrique Capriles, co-founder of the\u00a0Justice First\u00a0<\/i>party, and their former candidate in the 2012\/13 presidential elections). The government won 23 governorships out of 24, including that of Essequibo Guyana (the disputed territory claimed by both Guyana and Venezuela, but internationally recognized as part of Guyana. Following a referendum in December of 2023, a new law was passed in 2024 designating the region as a new state). It regained the governorships of Zulia, Nueva Esparta and Barinas, while the bourgeois opposition retained Cojedes state.<\/p>\n

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High abstention: a sign of dissatisfaction<\/b><\/i>
\nThe most striking aspect of these elections is the very high abstention rate. The\u00a0CNE<\/i>\u00a0put them at just under 58%, but the truth is that the images that went viral on social networks showed the alarming absence of voters in all polling stations across the country.
\nAccording to some polls, the unofficial abstention rate is said to be around 80%, or even as high as 85%. If the government itself speaks of a voter turnout of less than 43%, surely the abstention was much higher. In the weeks leading up to the elections, the population’s disinterest was already manifest, and contrasted with the great willingness to vote that was evident in the days leading up to the presidential elections in July of last year.
\nMar\u00eda Corina Machado and her supporters want to claim a supposed triumph with the high abstention rate. They want to make people believe that this was the result of their call not to vote. In fact, the high abstention was an expression of the weariness and genuine discontent that nestles in the heart of the people. It was a manifestation of repudiation of the government, and of disbelief in the electoral system. People did not vote because someone told them not to, but simply because they do not see any possibility of change in the country’s political and social situation through the electoral process.<\/div>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0After the scandalous fraud carried out by the government in last year’s presidential elections, it became clear to millions of people that there is little chance of defeating the government at the ballot box. But neither does it identify with the candidates of the opposition who participated in the elections, especially since these reached agreements with the government in order to participate (as was the case with Henrique Capriles, who negotiated his qualification in exchange for participating in the elections without being too critical).<\/div>\n

The bosses’ opposition, led by Mar\u00eda Corina Machado and her allies, sowed false expectations in the elections of July 28th, 2024. In a process that, from the moment it was called, was full of irregularities, advantage taking, disqualifications, and a great deal of repression and persecution.
\nThis opposition demobilised the discontent that was expressed the day after the elections, which was convenient for the dictatorial government of Maduro. In those elections, the fraud was blatant, and for the recent elections, the same anti-democratic conditions persisted, aggravated by the effects of the brutal repression following the previous ones.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Indeed, as we expressed in our statement prior to the elections, these elections were to be held in adverse conditions, with some 900 people detained for political reasons, and another 10,000 under precautionary measures, parties outlawed or intervened by the Supreme Court of Justice, others with unprocessed applications for their names, political leaders in exile or disqualified. Even in the days leading up to the elections, there was a new government crackdown, which resulted in the arrest of some 70 people. All against the backdrop of an abusive use of state resources by the ruling party.<\/div>\n

In this way the government consummated a new fraud, controlling all the instruments of the political regime, with the aim of staying in power against all odds.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n
The only thing left is to fight for a workers’ and popular plan and democratic freedoms<\/b><\/i>
\nFrom the\u00a0\u00a0Socialism and Freedom Party<\/i>, we affirm that only with struggle, with united and massive mobilisation, will we be able to recover the democratic freedoms that have been violated, achieve free and transparent elections, win the freedom of political prisoners, and defeat the adjustment plan that Maduro is applying in agreement with the bosses.
\nOnly with our mobilisation, independent of the government and the bosses’ opposition in all its variants, will we be able to impose a workers’ and popular emergency plan to respond to all the serious ills that afflict the working people.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSL), IWU-FI section in Venezuela \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0On Sunday, May 25th, legislative and regional elections were held in our country. The ruling\u00a0United Socialist Party of Venezuela\u00a0(PSUV) and its allies, according to the\u00a0National Electoral Council\u00a0(CNE), obtained 4,553,484 votes, corresponding to 82.6% of the electoral roll, while the parties of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21991,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21990\/revisions\/21991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}