Chavez's Socialist Party Loses Supermajority in Venezuelen Elections

[Wretched Excess]

Voters in Venezuela have stopped President Hugo Chavez from obtaining the two-thirds majority the Socialist leader said he needed in the National Assembly to effortlessly pass what he calls critical reforms.

According to incomplete returns released Monday, Chavez's United Socialist Party on Sunday won at least 94 of 165 seats, while his most ardent foes took 60. The rest of the votes had either not been determined or went to a small leftist party, Fatherland for All, that recently broke with the president.

Opposition leaders called the vote a setback for Chavez because it means his congressional allies will need to negotiate to approve laws and make important appointments, including those of Supreme Court judges.

"Clearly a majority of the country has expressed itself for a change in the National Assembly," Ramon Guillermo Avelado, director of the opposition's coalition of candidates, told Venevision television. "That is a win for all Venezuelans, not just for those who voted for our candidates."

Leaders from the opposition's Democratic Unity Table said that they had won a slight majority of the popular vote. But under a recent government reform of electoral districts, the votes in rural areas where the president is more popular carry far more weight than urban votes in cities like Caracas, where the opposition is entrenched.

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[cavegal]

Oh my this is huge NO? 

[TheSarge]

because it means his congressional allies will need to negotiate to approve laws and make important appointments, including those of Supreme Court judges.

Sorry...this is where Hugo invalidates the vote claiming fraud...dismisses congress...and permanently entrenches himself as a dictator.

[Wretched Excess]

I am all but certain that the late vote will go overwhelmingly for chavez, and he will reclaim his supermajority. 

and I am also pretty certain that scores of election officials with suddenly go missing, never to be seen or heard from again.

[cavegal]

I am sure it will not stand.

[true_blood]

I am all but certain that the late vote will go overwhelmingly for chavez, and he will reclaim his supermajority. 

and I am also pretty certain that scores of election officials with suddenly go missing, never to be seen or heard from again.

HA HA! For some reason, I agree.
Gotta love that picture of Chavez with the modern day Hitler in your post. What a pair of douche bags!

[DefiantSix]

I am all but certain that the late vote will go overwhelmingly for chavez, and he will reclaim his supermajority.  

and I am also pretty certain that scores of election officials with suddenly go missing, never to be seen or heard from again.

Yeah, funny how predictable that is, ain't it.

[Wineslob]

And the DUmmies cry "DIEBOLD!!"

[Karin]

Link

That's the link to the DUmp where it's being "discussed."  Fists fly immediately.  Beth gives her customary stupid post:

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Mon Sep-27-10 10:54 AM
Response to Reply #17
21. Apparently the voters of Venezuela disagree with you.
 lol

Beth, LOL is not a coherent argument.  LOL, indeed.  Stupid scrunt. 

[Wretched Excess]

chavez speaks.  you know, with just a minor change or two, this could be nancy pelosi's comments the morning after the VA and NJ races, and the MA special senate election.  it's almost exactly the same delusional, unconvincing, semi-desperate, barking mad nonsense that you would expect from pelosi, she just has a few dozen more face lifts. 

I don't think I have ever noticed the similarities between these two great minds before;  it's eerie.

"We've obtained a solid victory, sufficient to continue deepening Bolivarian and democratic socialism," he said in a message on his Twitter account. "We must continue strengthening the revolution. Another victory for the people."

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[JohnnyReb]

When the overseas DUmp vote is counted he will have a majority.