The elections in Venezuela

National Nicolas Matures he offers to build a “new majority" The elections in Venezuela By: Carlos Damian April 18, 2013 Henrique Capriles rejects the official results México. - The short breach imposes the hurry Hugo Chavez (HC), it been returned to choose for the town on Sunday, October 7. The delivery of its credential of winning candidate was on Wednesday 10. But this time, although Nicolas Maduro (NM), he said to be in favor of revising all the electoral boxes, there is hurry. Venezuela dawns with the news that in the first hours of the afternoon NM will be proclaimed, for the Electoral National Council (CNE), winner of the war. It happens this way, in spite of the fact that Henrique Capriles (HC), registered of the opposition, it demands little before the act of proclamation not and carry out as long as a recount “one by one” is not made to one of the votes. In the same message, HC calls to its followers to make sound its saucepans at night, to be mobilized to the offices of the CNE this Tuesday and to go, “with me to the front", on Wednesday toward the headquarters of the electoral organism in this city. "Who seeks to harm most in democracy it is giving or calling to a coup d’ état", NM sentences after receiving the document that winner proclaims it. In front of the diplomatic body, ministers, the dome of the armed forces, the ‘chavistas’ deputies and electoral experts that eulogize the election with everything and their result. NM affirms that it is in path “intent of ignorance of the democratic institutions". Not very before, the president of the CNE, Tibisday Lucena (TL), it defends the electoral system rudely, it rejects the count vote for vote and the back offered to that procedure by the government from The States and the American Organization of States because, she says “they represent a clear act of interference that looks for to intervene the national sovereignty." Night music TL gives NM the document and both they melt in a hug. NM dedicates good part of its speech, of little more than one hour, to a recount of the “battles" liberated by the extinct president (HC), always with the small blue book (the Political Constitution of Venezuela) in hand. " (Chavez) he left the orderly house as a good father". NM is recognized as the first ‘chavista’ president of the history of Venezuela; he promises to amend errors of the process and to build a “new majority". To the opposition he also dedicates them this sentence: "the democracy and the electoral system only serve when they win". On purpose of victories, the last figures of the CNE, with 99.17 percent of the records, are 7 millions 559 thousand 349 votes (50.75 percent) for NM and 7 millions 296 thousand 876 (48.98) for HC. A difference of 262 thousand 473 votes (1.77) that can vary lightly with the votes of the 100 thousand citizens that reside in the exterior. Juan Antonio Abreu, founder of the system of infantile and juvenile orchestras, occupies a place at once in the first line of delivery from the majority perseverance to Nicolas Maduro. He politics avoids, but it doesn't ignore the polarization of its country neither the violence of the criminals for the power of the streets that the same elect president has placed among his priorities. He speaks of the orchestras like an oasis of high values, oasis of conscience, of fraternity, of cult to the beauty". However this love to the music, he has a bitter one to wake up, and it belongs the answer from the opponents to the call from HC to the big shot casserole at the sharp of eight in the night. The concert of pots and low pans of intensity half hour later, but it continues. The reports in the nets indicate that the big shot casserole also sounds in some popular neighborhoods, a whole hour. They claim help of Obama At the same time NM offers a press wheel in the one which a first fact graph, calls the attention: instead of Hugo Chavez’s image, to their back there are three pictures of Simon Bolívar. Although at once of their proclamation it made this that would not lose the time “with a small group that he wants violence", NM dedicates good time at night to present accusations of diverse “attacks” of the opposition. The intent of burning two headquarters of the PSUV, one of them in Barinas, native state of Chavez; siege to the house of TL, and of the former minister Andres Izarra’s parents; the threat of actor Winston Vallenilla's son's murder, exciting of the concentrations ‘Chavez-men’, among other acts of the “yellow bourgeoisie." While one waits NM, several of the stellar figures of the ‘chavismo’ –current political line-they sustain brief chats with the journalists. Is the question sustained, can it have violence? And Jose Vicente Rangel answer (JVR), former vice-president of the republic, and “noble rampart of the democratic fight", according to NM. At those hours there are already protests in several places of the country, and in some the police forces intervene to contain or it disperse demonstrators with tear gases, like it happens in the Francisco Fajardo street, the main one quick way of the city. In the direction of Altamira, where the vote opponent always surpasses 80 percent, the concert of the casseroles has like advance the blockade of the most important avenue Francisco Miranda of the area. Militant opponents' groups make heaps of garbage in several points of the avenue, among the stations of the Chacao and Altamira subway, and they fasten them fire. At seven thirty of the night they are near 600, most teenagers that were children when HC began to govern. They have a confrontation with the military police but they are able to slip away, and they continue traveling the neighboring streets in search of bags of garbage to burn. The protests begin very of tomorrow. In the Altamira square, dozens of people proclaim: "yesterday Venezuela won Cuba", and some intend go to enter to the hotels where the “partners electoral foreigners stay. The calm the councilman opponent Freddy Guevara: "Henrique won't allow stealing. We will wait our president's call". The call happens at two in the afternoon. Dozens of people gathered to the outskirts of a restaurant with big televisions in the neighborhood Las Mercedes, look at the message of HC. "If today's day it is proclaimed, he is a spurious president". Applauses. Mobilizations to the headquarters of the CNE in the states. Applauses. The answer of NM is to call to the ‘Chavez-men’ to the streets Tuesday and Wednesday, to begin and then on Friday so that they accompany him to its taking of possession before the National Assembly. "We are followers of redeeming Christ, we are men of peace… we believe in the peace, but we are warring", NM says. "In peace, but with stability", it is the formula of HC. Already in the night, the state Telesur, and VTV television’s chains they show images of opponents' groups that are manifested away from their headquarters, hitting saucepans and throwing insults and threats to the employees. As JVR says, the “oracle of the revolution”, it can have violence.. (La Jornada, elecciones, p. 3, April 16, 2013).