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	Discussion on U.S.-Andean Free Trade Agreements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Elections in Venezuela are more transparent and less vulnerable to manipulation than ever before, according to Tibisay Lucena, president of Venezuela's National Electoral Council.
		Venezuela is currently registering candidates for presidential elections to be held December 3 of this year, which current president Hugo Chavez is widely expected to win.
		For the December elections, Venezuela is seeking the participation of international observers from all over the world, including the European Union, Organization of American States, and Finland.
	www.thedialogue.org /summaries/july06/lucena.asp (387 words)

	Election Observation and Legitimacy of Venezuela’s Parliamentary Elections
		Following an election, this is a fairly common phenomenon, as each side tries to “spin” the results with the media, to make it look like they won, no matter how implausible the claim.
		Venezuela’s opposition is essentially arguing along both tracks, that the Chavez government is illegitimate both because the vast majority of citizens do not recognize it as legitimate, due to the low voter turnout, and because it supposedly failed to follow basic procedures for being elected.
		Venezuela used to have a public financing system for its political parties, but Chavez had it eliminated because there was a general consensus when he took office that this financing system was abused by the two dominant parties in the past in order to perpetuate themselves in power.
	www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1633 (3168 words)

	washingtonpost.com: U.S. Calls for Early Elections in Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		CARACAS, Venezuela, Dec. 13 -- The Bush administration today called on President Hugo Chavez to hold early elections to resolve the year-long political standoff in Venezuela and ease growing fears that a debilitating 12-day-old national strike could explode into street violence or a coup d'etat.
		Venezuela's constitution, however, does not allow for early presidential elections, leaving the White House in the contradictory position of calling at once for a "constitutional" solution and early elections.
		Chaderton said they discussed Venezuela's oil industry and how "petroleum was being used as a weapon" in the strike, among other issues.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A52521-2002Dec13?language=printer (746 words)

	The Facts About Venezuela's Parliamentary Elections
		In their reports, the international observers of these elections from the EU and the OAS declared them fair and transparent, even though there was some criticism leveled at the CNE since 41% of the voters had problems understanding the automated system.
		However these elections were legal and politically, mathematically and objectively they are also more legitimate than recent parliamentary elections in Venezuela, contrary to what the opposition has asserted and omitted to mention.
		My friends in Venezuela know that very few of their fellow countrymen think that way and it is a media invention to discredit the government, since 85% of the TV stations, radio stations and written press is controlled by the opposition.
	www.handsoffvenezuela.org /venezuela_parliamentary_elections.htm (1183 words)

	Chavez dominates agenda in Regional Elections in Venezuela [Voltaire]
		In the municipal district of Libertador in Caracas, constituents are voting for a Greater Caracas Mayor and a city of Caracas mayor along with local councillors.
		Venezuela’s abstention rate during regional elections since 1989 has hovered at an average of 45 per cent.
		The opposition camp is expected to suffer most from abstention since some opposition leaders advised their followers not to vote during these elections as a way to show their dissatisfaction with the electoral process as led by the country’s national electoral authority (CNE) citing fraud during the presidential referendum.
	www.voltairenet.org /article122616.html (635 words)

	Chavez's party promises social change after sweeping elections in Venezuela (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Supporters of President Hugo Chavez vowed Monday to accelerate Venezuela's shift to a "new socialism" after claiming victory in elections that were expected to give pro-Chavez politicians all 167 seats in the National Assembly.
		Several of Venezuela's major opposition parties boycotted the vote on Sunday, which had an estimated turnout of 25 per cent and is likely to further polarize Venezuelan society.
		The head of Venezuela's electoral authority defended the vote and criticized the opposition and the country's private media.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/world/051205/w120582.html (542 words)

	Sumate: Fighting for Fair Elections \| www.vcrisis.com
		Instead, she is fueled by the passion which brought her here: to raise international support for Súmate, a Caracas-based NGO focussed on promoting political rights and transparent elections in Venezuela.
		Machado hopes that, while the political structures in Venezuela and Canada are substantially different, it is the "common democratic principles," like respect for freedom of speech, that will inspire Canadian contribution to Súmate's aim of fair elections.
		Canadian election observers were also involved with the pre-referendum petition: "Canada also contributed $60,000 and four observers to an OAS mission in May 2004 which oversaw the confirmation of 1.2 million signatures that had been collected in support of a referendum, but initially deemed invalid by Venezuela's electoral authority," according to the Canadian Embassy's website.
	www.vcrisis.com /?content=letters/200501261502 (729 words)

	Euro2day :: Venezuela struggles to win UN seat
		By a tenth-round vote, Venezuela was losing by 77 votes to 110 votes in the General Assembly after pulling even with Guatemala in earlier rounds.
		The tightly fought UN vote comes only six weeks ahead of elections in Venezuela, in which Mr Chávez's chances of winning re-election are narrowing, according to recent opinion polls.
		Candidates backed by Venezuela in presidential elections in Peru and Mexico this year lost, while Rafael Correa, the pro-Chávez candidate in Ecuador's elections held on Sunday, was forced into a second round run-off.
	www.euro2day.gr /articlesfna/22462387 (931 words)

	Venezuela Solidarity \| Chavez: "This is a victory of love, peace and hope"
		Venezuela's confirmation of its anti-imperialist, democratic socialist revolution through the decisive re-election of president Hugo Chávez this week opens the way for major expansion of its free "womb to tomb" public education program.
		At Venezuela's presidential election on 3 December, Hugo Chavez received a massive 63% of the vote with Manuel Rosales on 37%.
		Venezuela December 3 elections: “What is at stake is the future of the revolutionary process itself”
	www.venezuelasolidarity.org (3064 words)

	Elections in Venezuela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elections in Venezuela gives information on elections and election results in Venezuela.
		Venezuela elects on a national level a head of state – a president – and a unicameral federal legislature.
		The President of Venezuela is elected for a six-year term by the people, and is eligible for re-election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Venezuela (123 words)

	Global Voices Online » Elections
		Although more than ten candidates are registered, the election race is truly among only two candidates: the social democrat Manuel Rosales and incumbent President Hugo Chávez, who aspires to be reelected for 6 more years after having been in office for 8 years now.
		During the previous elections, four years ago, several political societies (political parties are banned in Bahrain) boycotted the elections under the pretext that the Bahraini Constitution was “unconstitutional”.
		Elections across the American continents are still reverberating in the Lusosphere as citizen journalists and analysts are attempting to find the meaning of and predict the future politics set in place by recent events.
	www.globalvoicesonline.org /-/topics/elections (5294 words)

	News - Venezuela - Hugo Chavez - Information - Human Rights Violations - Cuba » Elections Ignite Venezuela
		Election campaigns have driven Venezuela into a frenzy 49-days before the December 3 presidential polls.
		The National Election Commission program is being enforced without obstacles and has already checked the entire mechanism, among them registry rolls and computers that do over 99 percent of the process.
		This entry was posted on Saturday, October 14th, 2006 at 6:24 pm and is filed under Venezuela.
	www.shark.cc /Elections_Ignite_Venezuela_493.html (216 words)

	Narco News: White House Venezuela Error Backfires
		Friday’s desperate maneuver by U.S. President George W. Bush – his cynical call for “early elections” in Venezuela, a country that has had six national elections in the past four years – has backfired after it was revealed as unconstitutional.
		By endorsing early elections, you’ve effectively endorsed the main demand of the Venezuelan opposition, the opposition to President Chavez.
		Basically, if one party in Venezuela is calling for it, unless you’re saying that the party is calling for something extraconstitutional, the statement reflects the view that democracy is the best way to settle any of these serious problems that are in Venezuela.
	www.narconews.com /Issue26/article565.html (1484 words)

	The NarcoSphere \|\| Presidential elections in Venezuela
		It is easy to see that the election campaigns are not the only item on people’s minds today and maybe not even the most important.
		But even if calm does follow the elections on Sunday, don’t expect a bed of roses for Chávez for the next six years unless a sizeable part of that one-third of the population, that maintains it is the majority, decides to permanently move to Miami.
		Happily, the elections took place in peace, in spite of the concern that the opposition would not accept the defeat graciously.
	narcosphere.narconews.com /story/2006/11/30/20291/501 (2128 words)

	Pro-Chávez parties sweep Venezuela vote
		Once again, an election in Venezuela has confirmed deep popular support for the policies of President Hugo Chávez and his Bolivarian Revolution, which has channeled revenues from the country’s oil wealth into extensive programs to provide education, housing, health care, jobs and land to the poor.
		Nevertheless, a deliberate campaign continues to destabilize the election process and declare the new National Assembly an “undemocratic” and “illegitimate” body, and the whole Venezuelan Revolution a “farce.” This is the message that the bourgeois press, dominated by U.S. news agencies, has circulated throughout the world.
		In the buildup to these elections, a bomb exploded on Dec. 2 behind the attorney general’s office, injuring the daughter of one of the department’s workers.
	www.workers.org /2005/world/venezuela-1215 (1198 words)

	Elections in Venezuela? You must be kidding! \| www.vcrisis.com
		But let’s not forget that some contested elections from the year 2000 have not been decided by the courts yet, while the chavista beneficiaries have been ruling those states since that time.
		It goes without saying that any close election in August will probably fudged for the chavista candidate and the opponent will have to trek the judicial system for 4 years.
		Making a grand stand and not run for election will give away the very few remnants of influence that the opposition has at the administrative level.
	www.vcrisis.com /index.php?content=letters/200403260710 (326 words)

	CBS News \| Venezuela Opposition Quits Elections
		Chavez accused the parties of trying to derail the elections because they faced little support and insisted that Sunday's elections will be clean.
		Another party, Project Venezuela, announced its withdrawal from the vote, while the Social Christian Party, or Copei, threatened to boycott if the elections are not postponed.
		The centrist parties differ little in ideology and are united in their fierce opposition to Chavez, who says he is leading a socialist revolution to help the poor.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/11/30/ap/world/mainD8E6H6B80.shtml (669 words)

	Elections’ Aftermath
		Despite the illegitimacy of the elections, which are held under foreign military occupation, Iraqis who came out for the elections voted to end the occupation, not to endorse its continuity.
		The Bush administration claims that the elections are somehow an endorsement for the war and the Occupation are misleading and untrue.
		The Bush administration is increasing its hold on the country, using the pretexts of democracy and fraudulent elections to legitimise the Occupation.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article7970.htm (1156 words)

	Misery in the Name of Democracy: The US Works Elections in Iraq, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Haiti
		The Bush Administration is touting Iraq's December 15 election as a giant leap forward for freedom guaranteed to ignite fervor for democracy across the entire Middle East.
		As in Haiti, democracy in Iraq is to be mainly a procedural matter, demonstrated by periodic elections regardless of political chaos and widespread violence against candidates and voters alike.
		And as in Venezuela and Bolivia, the government that is produced by the elections will be entitled to the label "democracy" only as long as it follows a US policy script.
	www.commondreams.org /views05/1216-21.htm (1674 words)

	Ohio University Outlook
		Although Walker and the other elections observers were well received he said there was an atmosphere of tremendous tension in the country surrounding the recall referendum of President Hugo Chavez.
		The populist Chavez won the election with over 57 percent of the vote in an exceptionally high electoral turnout that had Venezuelans standing in long lines at polling places.
		According to Walker, losing the referendum actually benefits the opposition in Venezuela because it means Chavez will serve out the rest of his term before the next elections are held.
	www.ohio.edu /outlook/508f-034.cfm (593 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Venezuela 'landslide' for Chavez
		"Venezuela is speaking with its silence," said Julio Borges, a prominent opposition member.
		BBC Latin America analyst James Painter says the election was essentially about the democratic legitimacy of Mr Chavez, as both sides can claim a victory of sorts.
		Attention will now focus on the international observers who are due to pronounce on the fairness of the vote, he adds.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4496586.stm (450 words)

	Elections' Aftermath
		On the day of the elections Iraq was in a state of siege, cut off from all directions.
		Further, the Centre did not participate in the Iraq’s elections because Iraq’s elections do not met the elections’ criteria, such as free and safe environment, and the ability of candidates to move freely.
		The elections should provide a first step to free Iraq from US occupation, and allow the Iraqi people to build their society and their country free from foreign domination.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article7994.htm (1160 words)

	Global Exchange : Upcoming Regional Elections Summary
		Thousands of Venezuelans marched through the streets of Caracas urging the government to ensure that the October 31st regional elections are free and fair.
		Caracas Mayor and opposition member Alfredo Pena announced that he will not participate in the elections since he considers it "contradictory to denounce fraud and participate." This leaves the door open for Juan Barreto, a pro-Chavez ally, to govern Venezuela's capital city.
		On a related note, the OAS and Carter Center announced that they will not be sending monitors to observe the October 31st regional elections in Venezuela.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/americas/venezuela/2608.html (281 words)

	Lijphart Elections Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Lijphart Elections Archive is a static research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries that was maintained through 2003.
		This was the origin of the Elections Archive in the University Library of the University of California, San Diego.
		The objective of the Archive is to systematically collect election statistics in as much detail as possible, including, as a minimum, the results at the level of the individual election districts in which votes are converted into seats.
	dodgson.ucsd.edu /lij (208 words)

	Bush’s Desperate Venezuela Statement : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Today's Statement by the Press Secretary of the White House that “Calls for Early Elections” in Venezuela inadvertently reveals the Bush administration’s efforts against democracy in that country, and its fears that the total collapse of its foreign coup attempt is only days away.
		“Six elections in the past four years in Venezuela, all of them won by President Hugo Chávez and his supporters, all of them deemed fair and free by national and international observers (including by delegates of the U.S. Republican and Democratic parties who were present to observe them), are not enough.
		The call for “early elections” is also deceptive, because the Venezuelan Constitution already provides for a Presidential recall vote in August 2003 — sooner than any national elections will happen in the United States.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2002/12/1550498.php (690 words)

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