Venezuela: Democratic Unity Roundtable coalition win
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Venezuela’s parliamentary elections, taking control of the legislature from the governing socialists. The opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable coalition got 99 seats in the country’s parliament, while the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, founded by the late President Hugo Chavez, won 46 seats.
Venezuelans nation of 19.4 million were eligible to vote. As per the reports of the media mostly centre-right MUD coalition won a majority of 99 out of 167 seats in the state legislature,the head of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Tibisay Lucena, announced early on Monday further reports the electoral commission recorded a turnout of 74.25 percent.
First time in 15 years that anti-Chavez parties have won a majority in the legislature, which comprises 167 deputies.
Opposition leaders expressed their joy at the outcome, with Henrique Capriles, one of the coalition’s leaders, tweeting:“The results are as we hoped. Venezuela has won. It’s irreversible.”
The new parliament is set to start its work in January 2016. Its term lasts for five years.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, 53, rapidly acknowledged his party’s defeat.“We are here, with morals and ethics, to recognize these adverse results,” Reuters reported Maduro as saying in an address to the nation. He blamed an “economic war” against his government for the results.
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