Legislative in Venezuela: the new hope of the poorest populations
View of Caracas, Venezuela (illustrative image).
AP - Matias Delacroix
Text by: Marie Normand Follow
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With less than a week of controversial legislative elections, polls predict low turnout.
However, in certain working-class neighborhoods in the Caracas region, Venezuelans intend to go to the polls in the hope of change in this country undermined by an unprecedented political, economic and social crisis.
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From our special correspondent in Caracas,
Yameli Rios waits for his bus in Catia, a poor working-class neighborhood in the west of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.
This seamstress, unemployed since the start of the pandemic, will vote Sunday, December 6 for the PSUV (Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela), the party in power, seduced by its economic recovery program.
“
It's fundamental
,” she believes.
Because finding a solution to the economic problems, to inflation, everything we are going through at the moment, would allow us to live better.
I hope that we will have an Assembly that represents us because the current Assembly is not doing its job.
"
His opinion is shared by Rodolfo who, however, votes for the opposition, majority in Parliament since 2015. "
Five years in the Assembly and they have done nothing, except to try to overthrow the government
", laments -he.
Rodolfo sells sweets outside the metro because his salary as a mechanic is no longer enough to feed his family of four children.
Above all, he hopes that the new MPs will vote for a minimum wage hike.
Boycott of the opposition
The opposition has chosen not to participate, qualifies the ballot as "
fraud
", and counts on the fact that the results will not be recognized by the international community.
She calls on her supporters to abstain and not to vote for the various candidates registered on the lists who present themselves as opponents of President Nicolas Maduro.
"
I'm going to vote against the ruling party,"
Rodolfo continues.
For any other candidate that I don't know, but against the government!
If we do not vote, they will still remain in power.
We have to go and vote to see what these opposition candidates have to offer for the country.
"
Fredwis Romero, business leader, also thinks that the boycott of these legislative elections by most of the opposition parties was a mistake.
"
The first thing is to change government, because the ideology of this government has served no purpose," he
believes.
You have to go and vote, en masse.
"
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