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Chavez wins but loses majority
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September 28, 2010, Tuesday
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VENEZUELA'S President Hugo Chavez's allies won a strong majority in the nation's congress, but lost the majority needed to carry out major changes on their own, according to election results released yesterday.
With the vast majority of votes from Sunday's election counted, Chavez's Socialist Party won at least 96 of the 165 seats in the National Assembly, while the opposition coalition won at least 61 seats, National Electoral Council president Tibisay Lucena said.
The remaining eight seats either went to a small splinter party or had not yet been determined, she said.
Chavez hailed it as a "solid victory" in a Twitter post, despite falling short of his goal of keeping the two-thirds majority that has allowed his allies to push through major changes unopposed.
In the state of Zulia, where the opposition won 12 of the 15 posts up for grabs, Governor Pablo Perez attributed the opposition's gains to the coalition's decision to field a single candidate for each of the 165 seats being contested.
"We showed Venezuela that we can advance if we're united," Perez said.
Polls suggest Chavez remains the most popular politician in Venezuela, yet surveys have also shown a decline in his popularity in the past two years as disenchantment has grown over the nation's persisting domestic problems.
Since he was first elected in 1998, Chavez has fashioned himself as a revolutionary-turned-president, with a nationalist vision and a deep-seated antagonism toward the United States government.
With the vast majority of votes from Sunday's election counted, Chavez's Socialist Party won at least 96 of the 165 seats in the National Assembly, while the opposition coalition won at least 61 seats, National Electoral Council president Tibisay Lucena said.
The remaining eight seats either went to a small splinter party or had not yet been determined, she said.
Chavez hailed it as a "solid victory" in a Twitter post, despite falling short of his goal of keeping the two-thirds majority that has allowed his allies to push through major changes unopposed.
In the state of Zulia, where the opposition won 12 of the 15 posts up for grabs, Governor Pablo Perez attributed the opposition's gains to the coalition's decision to field a single candidate for each of the 165 seats being contested.
"We showed Venezuela that we can advance if we're united," Perez said.
Polls suggest Chavez remains the most popular politician in Venezuela, yet surveys have also shown a decline in his popularity in the past two years as disenchantment has grown over the nation's persisting domestic problems.
Since he was first elected in 1998, Chavez has fashioned himself as a revolutionary-turned-president, with a nationalist vision and a deep-seated antagonism toward the United States government.
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