The ruling Carmén Meléndez will be the next mayor of the capital Caracas. For the first time since 2017, the opposition has participated in elections where the turnout was 41.8%.
The officialdom It has won 20 of the 23 governorships in the regional and municipal elections held this Sunday in Venezuela, with 90.21% of the votes counted. For now, the result is unknown in the cities of Venezuela with the exception of Caracas, where former Interior Minister Carmén Meléndez has won, with 58.93% of the votes counted. For the first time since 2017, the opposition has participated in elections where the turnout was 41.8%.
The oppositionOn the other hand, he has won in Cojedes, where Jose Alberto Galindez, of the MUD, has won, as well as in Nueva Esparta, where Morel Rodríguez Ávila of the emerging Fuerza Vecinal party has been in first place. The biggest victory of the opposition has been in Zulia, the most populated state in the country, where the veteran Manuel Rosales of the MUD has won.
If these results are confirmed, Chavismo would improve the results obtained in 2017, when it won in 18 states and Caracas.
The participation in these regional and municipal elections it has been 41.8% which means 8 151 793 citizens.
After knowing the results, the president Nicolas Maduro He has addressed the public with a message in which he has affirmed that Chavismo has achieved a “good victory.” Maduro has appealed to dialogue as a way of understanding and has reached out to the victorious opponents in governorships and mayors to “make joint plans and support the states that have supported them.”
Maduro has previously applauded the presence of international observers and, as he did this past Saturday, urged EU envoys to respect with humiliation” the results of the elections.
One dead and two injured
One person has died and two people have been injured in a shooting at a voting center in the state of Zulia (in the northwest of the country). The incident occurred when armed men arrived at the municipality’s voting center aboard white vans and opened fire on those present, as reported by the Venezuelan newspaper The truth.
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