[lbo-talk] Chavez Supporters Won 80% of Local Offices in Venezuela

[mike larkin]

"Caracas, Venezuela, August 10, 2005 —Chavez’s party,
the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR), along with other
allied parties of the pro-Chavez coalition, won 80% of
the city and district council seats that were up for a
vote last Sunday. Of these, members of Chavez’s own
MVR party won 58% of the seats.

The announcement of the number of seats pro-Chavez
candidates won was made Monday by MVR National
Assembly member Willian Lara, who explained that MVR
candidates won 1,383 out of 2,389 city council seats.
If confirmed, this means that MVR candidates won 888
more city council seats than they had won in the last
local elections in December 2000, when they won only
495 seats. The successes of other parties in Chavez's
governing coalition, such as Podemos, PPT (Fatherland
for all), and PCV (Communist Party of Venezuela)
increase this margin further.

An examination of some of the city council elections
shows that there was a trend towards class
polarization, so that in middle to upper class Caracas
neighborhoods such as Chacao and Baruta, where
Chavistas lost seats to the opposition and in poorer
Caracas neighborhoods, such as Sucre and Libertador
Chavistas gained seats...."

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1711 

		
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