It’s certainly amusing to watch the president commander and his supporters twist and turn their arguments to explain their recent electoral defeat in the parliamentary elections. The leader is so disconnected from reality that he shamelessly claims to have won the elections, boasting of a so-called “solid victory,” despite receiving only 48% of the votes. The chavista perspective goes like this: since Chávez’s party, the PSUV, received the most votes, it leads to the conclusion that chavismo is the majority. For better illustrative and statistical effects:
Chávez and the parties allied with the PSUV received 5,399,574 votes.
The opposition and parties allied with the MUD received 5,312,293 votes.
The PPT, the party of “liars and manipulators” that Chávez says will disappear, obtained 330,260 votes.
Thus, the 5,399,574 chavista votes, in the “revolutionary communist logic,” represent the majority. If the PPT had not existed, and its 330,260 votes, the chavista argument might hold some validity. However, those 330,260 votes do not belong to chavismo but rather to individuals who voted for a different option, one that opposes Chávez’s policies. In other words, the number of votes obtained by parties not supporting Chávez is greater than the number of votes received by Chávez and his supporting parties. This does not imply that the 330,260 votes from the PPT are votes for the opposition gathered in the MUD; nonetheless, no one in their right mind can deny that these votes exist, can be overlooked, or belong to a collective opposing chavismo.
As it stands today, those who do not support Hugo Chávez total 5,642,553 Venezuelans, while the chavistas number 5,399,574. This is the only valid survey. Hence the crucial question posed by Andreína Flores to Hugo Chávez: “Why did the PSUV get more deputies than the opposition?” No one understands how the opposition, having obtained 52% of the votes, managed to secure approximately 40% of the seats. And since we don’t understand, we published an open letter to Socorro Hernández from the CNE, in hopes she can clarify the “method.” Honestly, I have no hopes that Socorro will come to rescue us from our doubt, given that she has already stated otherwise on the matter, arguing that those who don’t understand the “method” lack “criteria.” She added that this is a “method that is applied exactly the same for all participants in this electoral process…” However, Socorro didn’t specify how exactly the “method” operates, or what criteria or rules of democratic proportional representation in the chavista constitution allow for such fraud.
But not everything is lost; we already have some clues indicating how the fraud was carried out, thanks to the Organic Law of Electoral Processes (without which the opposition would have secured 74 deputies). There are numerous examples, in the Capital District, Miranda, and Carabobo states, where, as Daniel says, “with only 45.3% of the votes, the PSUV got 59.4% of the deputies.” In the votes for the Parlatino, the opposition to Chávez received 500,727 votes more than chavismo. The undeniable reality is that Hugo Chávez has lost the majority and can only cling to power through tricks and fraud. The Venezuelan people, those who did not vote for Chávez, are the majority, and there is no ‘revolutionary communist logic’ that can convince any democrat otherwise.