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'''Parliamentary elections''' were held in [[Venezuela]] on 6 December 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Venezuela to hold parliamentary election on Dec. 6|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/22/us-venezuela-election-idUSKBN0P21ZH20150622|accessdate=22 June 2015|agency=Reuters|date=22 June 2015}}</ref> Members of the opposition had speculated that President [[Nicolás Maduro]] might suspend the elections, but Maduro stated the elections would happen even in the most adverse circumstances.<ref name=nosuspend>{{cite news|title=Maduro rejects speculation he'll suspend Venezuela elections - Salon.com|url=http://www.salon.com/2015/03/05/maduro_rejects_speculation_hell_suspend_venezuela_elections/|accessdate=9 April 2015|agency=[[Associated Press|AP]]|date=5 March 2015}}</ref> Polls showed the opposition [[Democratic Unity Roundtable]] leading by comfortable margins the ruling [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]], giving them a chance to retake the [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly]] for the first time since the early 2000s.<ref>{{cite news|title=Venezuela's Media Isn't Smearing the Opposition; It's Making Them Invisible|url=http://www.americasquarterly.org/content/venezuelas-media-isnt-smearing-opposition-its-making-them-invisible#.VlZ2OXrvj8N.twitter|author= Javier Corrales and Franz Von Bergen|accessdate=26 November 2015|agency=Americas Quarterly|date=23 November 2015}}</ref>
'''Parliamentary elections''' were held in [[Venezuela]] on 6 December 2015.<ref>{{cite news|title=Venezuela to hold parliamentary election on Dec. 6|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/22/us-venezuela-election-idUSKBN0P21ZH20150622|accessdate=22 June 2015|agency=Reuters|date=22 June 2015}}</ref> Members of the opposition had speculated that President [[Nicolás Maduro]] might suspend the elections, but Maduro states that the elections would happen even in the most adverse circumstances.<ref name=nosuspend>{{cite news|title=Maduro rejects speculation he'll suspend Venezuela elections - Salon.com|url=http://www.salon.com/2015/03/05/maduro_rejects_speculation_hell_suspend_venezuela_elections/|accessdate=9 April 2015|agency=[[Associated Press|AP]]|date=5 March 2015}}</ref> Polls showed the opposition [[Democratic Unity Roundtable]] leading by comfortable margins the ruling [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]], giving them a chance to retake the [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly]] for the first time since the early 2000s.<ref>{{cite news|title=Venezuela's Media Isn't Smearing the Opposition; It's Making Them Invisible|url=http://www.americasquarterly.org/content/venezuelas-media-isnt-smearing-opposition-its-making-them-invisible#.VlZ2OXrvj8N.twitter|author= Javier Corrales and Franz Von Bergen|accessdate=26 November 2015|agency=Americas Quarterly|date=23 November 2015}}</ref>


==Background==
==Background==

Revision as of 02:04, 8 December 2015

Venezuelan parliamentary election, 2015
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All 167 seats in the National Assembly[1]
84 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Jesús Torrealba Diosdado Cabello
Party MUD PSUV
Alliance MUD GPPSB
Leader since 2014[2] 2008
Leader's seat none Monagas
Last election 64 seats, 47.2% 96 seats, 48.2%
Seats before 63 seats 99 seats
Seats won 112 51[3]
Seat change Increase 36 Decrease 53
President of the NA before election

Diosdado Cabello
PSUV

President of the NA

TBD
MUD

Parliamentary elections were held in Venezuela on 6 December 2015.[4] Members of the opposition had speculated that President Nicolás Maduro might suspend the elections, but Maduro states that the elections would happen even in the most adverse circumstances.[5] Polls showed the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable leading by comfortable margins the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, giving them a chance to retake the National Assembly for the first time since the early 2000s.[6]

Background

Since the 1999 Constitutional Assembly elections, the National Assembly was dominated by alliances supportive of President Hugo Chávez. In the 2005 parliamentary elections, most opposition parties decided to withdraw, resulting in all seats being won by the Fifth Republic Movement and other parties supportive of Chávez. For the 2010 elections, an alliance of opposition parties was formed by the Democratic Unity Roundtable to contest the elections, and managed to win 64 seats. The PSUV, which was an alliance formed by Chávez from the Fifth Republic Movement and a number of smaller parties, won 96 seats, maintaining their majority, but lost their two-thirds and three-fifths supermajority. Fatherland for All, a small left-wing party, won two seats.[7] After Chávez's death in 2013, his hand-picked successor Maduro was narrowly elected president, continuing Chávez' ideological influence.[8] The Democratic Unity Roundtable alliance aim to improve its result from last time and end the current PSUV government,[9] while Maduro said he had faith in the voters giving the government a large majority.[5]

Protests

Main article: 2014–15 Venezuelan protests

In 2014, a series of protests and demonstrations began in Venezuela. The protests have been attributed to inflation, violence and shortages in Venezuela. The protests have been largely peaceful,[10] though some have escalated and resulted in violence from both protesters and government forces. The government has accused the protests of being motivated by 'fascists' opposition leaders, capitalism and foreign influence,[11] and has itself been accused of censorship, supporting groups called colectivos using violence against protesters and politically motivated arrests.[12]

Electoral system

Starting from 2015, the 167 members of the National Assembly are elected by a mixed majoritarian system; 113 members are elected by First-past-the-post voting in 87 constituencies. A total of 51 seats are elected by closed list proportional representation based on the 23 states and the Capital District. Seats are allocated using the d'Hondt method. The remaining three seats are reserved for indigenous peoples, and are elected by the community.[13]

The opposition coalition held primaries on 17 May in 33 of the 87 electoral districts, choosing candidates for 42 seats; 125 additional candidates are expected to be hand-picked by 'consensus' among party leaders,[14] though the rules were later changed to require 40% of opposition candidates to be women and barred some popular opposition candidates from running, a move that experts called unconstitutional.[15] The PSUV held primaries in all 87 electoral districts on 28 June with the Bolivarian government stating there was a participation of 3,162,400 voters,[16] though some observing the primaries noticed a large decrease of voters to less than 1 million participating, or about 10% of PSUV members.[15]

Conduct

Leading up to the elections, serious issues have been raised about its fairness and credibility.[17] On 10 October 2015, Brazil pulled out of a UNASUR electoral mission to observe the Venezuelan election over what it said a lack of guarantees by the socialist government and its veto of the choice to head the delegation.[18] In a statement on 10 November 2015, Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro condemned Venezuela's electoral process, explaining that the ruling party, PSUV, has an unfair advantage with its ability to use public assets, media access, creating dubious voting sheets and by disqualifying opposition politicians, stating that "It's worrying that ... the difficulties only impact the opposition parties".[19]

Opinion polls

Graphical summary

The blue line represents percentage that favor MUD. The red line represents percentage that favor PSUV. Unfilled dots represent individual results of the polls seen below.

Poll results are listed in the tables below in chronological order and using the date the survey's fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. If such date is unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed in bold, and the background shaded in the leading party's colour.

Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size 		PSUV MUD Others/
Independent 		Undecided/
Don't know
IVAD[20][21] 29 September 2014 800 27.6% 45.2% – 27.2%
Consultores 21[21] 21 September – 2 October 2014 1000 33% 48% –
Datanálisis[22] October 2014 1293 21.0% 38.9% 12.9% 17.5%
Datanálisis[22] November 2014 1300 18.8% 39.8% 15.5% 17.5%
VARIANZAS[23][24] 8–23 December 2014 1200 30.3% 43.9% 4.9% [note 1] 20.9 [note 2]
Datanálisis[22] January 2015 1000 17.3% 45.9% 13.8% 17.4%
Keller y Asociados[25] January 2015 1200 44% 56% – –
Meganalisis[26] 25 January 2015 – 21.0% 29.0% – 26.8%
Datanálisis[27] February 2015 ? 22.5% 59.6% 17.9% –
ICS[28] 10–20 February 2015 1300 43.6% 31.6% – 24.8%
DatinCorp[29] 8 February 2015 1200 23.83% 47.83% – 17%[note 3]
Datanálisis[22][30] March 2015 1000 19.0% 42,6% 8.8% 21.3%
Keller y Asociados[31] 26 February – 13 March 2015 1200 31% 42% 11% 16%
Datanálisis[22] April 2015 1000 25.0% 45.8% 6.5% 16.5%
VARIANZAS[32] 19 March – 2 April 2015 1200 33.7% 46.1% 7.8% 12.5%
UCAB/Delphos[33] 10 – 25 April 2015 1200 15.5% 39.2% – 45.7% [note 4]
Hercón[34] 1 – 15 May 2015 1200 28% 52% – 19.8% [note 5]
DatinCorp[35] May 2015 1200 18% 48% 21% 14%[note 3]
Datanálisis[36] 18–30 May 2015 1000 21.3% 40.1% 10.0% 28.6%
Meganalisis[26] 30 May 2015 – 19.5% 17.6% – 28.7%
IVAD[37] 28 May – 11 June 2015 1200 20.8% 32.6% 27.6 19% [note 6]
Datanálisis[38] June 2015 ? 27% 61% 12% –
Hercón[39] 20 – 27 June 2015 2000 28.1% 61.1% – 10.5%
ICS[40] 6–27 July 2015 8000
(500 per state) 		45.3% 37.6% – 17.1%
Datanálisis[22][41] 10 – 23 July 2015 999 19.2% 42.2% 11.8% 17.5%
DatinCorp[42] July 2015 1197 20% 42% 14% 23% [note 7]
Meganalisis[43] August 2015 – 16.3% 42.4% – 13.0%
IVAD[44] 08 – 16 August 2015 1200 19.3% 57.9% – 22.8%
Keller y Asociados[45] 19 August – 5 September 2015 1200 27% 53% 11% 9%
Datanálisis[46] September 2015 – 21% 44% 35% –
DatinCorp[47] September 2015 – 20% 53% –
Delphos September 2015 – 20% 50% 20% 10%
Meganalisis[43] September 2015 – 26.7% 37.6% – 35.7%
Venebarómetro/IVAD[48] 5 – 15 September 2015 1200 17.1% 38.3% 28.0% 16.7%
Hercon[49] 13 – 16 September 2015 1000 22.3% 60.1% 13.0% 4.6%
Consultores 21[50] 4 – 20 September 2015 - 35.8% 57.8% 3.7% –
Hercon[51] 5 – 20 September 2015 1200 30.3% 62.3% – 7.3%
Consultores 21[52] October 2015 - 34% 55% –
Datanálisis[53] October 2015 – 28.2% 63.2% –
DatinCorp[54] October 2015 – 20% 47% –
DatinCorp[55] October 2015 – 39% 56% –
IVAD[56] October 2015 – 22.1% 41.8% [note 1]
Venebarómetro[57] 11 October 2015 – 19,9% 43.7% – 26.5%
Keller y Asociados[58] 5 – 15 November 2015 1200 25% 59% 11% 6%
IVAD[59] 10 – 20 November 2015 1200 27.8% 43.0% 11.3% 17.8%
Venebarómetro[60] 8 – 22 November 2015 1200 27.6% 42.7% 11.1% 18.7%
Hercón[61] 10 – 25 November 2015 1200 31.6% 60.1% – 8.2%
Meganalisis[62] 18 – 26 November 2015 1200 28% 63% 6% 3%

Results

Just after midnight on 7 December 2015, the CNE announced the opposition coalition (MUD) gained at least 99 out of 167 seats in the National Assembly, meaning it will obtain at least a simple majority, while the pro-government coalition won at least 46. Another 22 seats have yet to be declared.[63][64][65] Voter participation exceeded 70 percent.[66]

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) 112
United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) 51
Indigenous seats 3 –
Undeclared – – 19 –
Invalid/blank votes – – –
Total 167 +2
Registered votes/turnout 74.25
Source: CNE (96.03% of the vote counted)

Reactions

According to the Associated Press, celebrations and fireworks could be heard in the streets of Caracas following the MUD victory.[63] In a speech following the results, President Maduro acknowledged his party's defeat, saying that, despite these "adverse results", Venezuela's democracy and constitution had triumphed; while calling for peace, re-evaluation, he attributed the opposition's victory to an intensification of the "economic war".[63][67] The leader of the MUD, Jesús Torrealba, told supporters after their party's victory that "The country wants change and that change is beginning today".[63] Henrique Capriles Radonski, a leading opposition politician, stated "The results are as we hoped. Venezuela has won. It's irreversible".[67]

Venezuelan bonds grew across the board about one to three cents after the announcement of MUD's victory in the elections, with one researcher at Exotix brokerage stating, "It's better than we expected. Polls suggested a victory but whether that translated into seats was another question. Also, (the government) seem to have accepted the result".[68]

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ a b Neither
  2. ^ 11.2% Don't know, 7.4% It depends, 2.3 % Won't vote
  3. ^ a b No vote (no votaría)
  4. ^ 20.7% Don't know, 8.2% Won't vote, 16.4% Neither
  5. ^ 11.2% Don't know, 14.2% Won't vote
  6. ^ "The rest declares themselves undecided."
  7. ^ 13% "Wouldn't Vote, 10% "Undecided"

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