Caracas: Venezuelan democracy stands out today as the great winner of the legislative elections held the day before in the South American nation, beyond the results from the polls, Prensa Latina publishes.
Despite external pressure and threats of ignoring the process, together with the complicated economic situation and the repeated calls for abstention, an important sector of the population endorsed the democratic vocation to settle political differences through voting.
With 82.35 percent of the records scrutinized, the authorities of the National Electoral Council (CNE) awarded the victory in the elections of the National Assembly (unicameral Parliament) to the Great Patriotic Pole, which brought together the forces related to the Bolivarian Revolution.
The head of State, Nicolás Maduro, celebrated the triumph of the unitary blockade formed by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and its allies, whose candidates reached 67.36 percent of the votes counted.
Maduro described the Election Day as a great victory for democracy, during which the Venezuelan people came out to elect their representatives in Parliament for the period 2021-2026, after five years of a legislature dominated by sectors of the extreme right.
“We are going towards a new cycle of recovery of the country with sovereignty, with independence?, the head of state, who ratified all the government’s support for the legislative branch to work together to solve the problems existing in the country, said.
‘We have a new National Assembly at the service of the majorities; count on me so that the homeland recovers the path of development?, the dignitary said.
In addition to the election of the 277 deputies of Parliament, the elections of this December 6 determined the continuity in power of the Venezuelan president, who the previous week announced the decision to abandon the presidency of the Republic in case of a triumph of the opposition .
After the announcement of the preliminary results, the president of the CNE, Indira Alfonzo, urged the elected deputies to live up to the responsibility conferred by the voters through the exercise of suffrage.
The head of the highest electoral body stressed that the people were the great winner of the election day of December 6, as well as the institutions of the Venezuelan State and the democratic order.
According to preliminary figures, the event had the participation of 31 percent of the 20 million 700 thousand registered voters, in a process marked by the nomination of candidates from a hundred organizations with political purposes of various ideological tendencies.
For the development of suffrage, the CNE deployed 29,622 polling stations distributed in 14,221 voting centers throughout the country, where rigorous biosafety protocols were implemented in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Likewise, around 200 international observers from more than 30 countries, in addition to 1,600 national observers, were deployed throughout the country to ensure the transparency of the vote, as part of the agreed guarantees.
The renewal of the CNE and the call for legislative elections were part of the agreements emanating from the national dialogue table installed in September 2019 between the Bolivarian Government and various opposition parties.
Retaking the path of institutionalism and becoming the center of the constructive political debate on the great issues and urgencies of Venezuelan society will be the great challenges of the new National Assembly, to be installed on January 5, 2021.