Venezuelan Electoral Participation on May 20th 2018 the Lowest Since 1958

By: Agencies | Monday, May 21st 2018. 01:27 PM

Participation in the Venezuelan Presidential Elections

May 21st, 18.- These Presidential polls in Venezuela last Sunday May 20th were the lowest since year 1958. According to the National Electoral Council the participation was of 48%.

With 96% of the scrutinized records, the participation was of 46.01%, and the CNE was expecting a total of 48% of attendance to the electoral centers, the President of the Electoral Power of Venezuela, Tibisay Lucena appointed. 

The Venezuelan opposition, organized through the Table of the Democratic Unity (MUD), and the Wide Front Venezuela Free (Frente Amplio Venezuela Libre), exhorted to the abstention these polls for considering this process was not complying with the conditions for legal and transparent elections. 

The Supreme Tribunal of Justice invalidated the MUD card. The National Electoral Council also invalidated the oppositionist parties Primero Justicia (Justice First) and Voluntad Popular (People's Will) for not having participated in the elections for Majoralties of year 2017. 

On the other hand, oppositionist leaders such as Henrique Capriles was politically disabled by the General Comptrollership of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Capriles was defeated by Nicolás Maduro in the Presidential elections of year 2013.

Henri Falcón postulated against the MUD decision not to participate in these polls. However, soon before the announcement of the final results this Sunday, Falcón assured that the abstention had harmed his winning options. Falcón stressed on the irregularities in the electoral centers on the voting day, and he discredited the polls.

Read the original article in Spanish, here: Participación electoral de este 20 de mayo fue la más baja desde 1958 

English Version: María Eugenia Acero Colomine

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