Venezuela National Assembly Elections, Dec. 6 2015

[Skye]

It is oficial

MUD 109 + 3 indigenous seats = 112
PSUV 55 seats

In Aragua 3 MUD won by a margin of 82 votes!

Aragua 3 was the only circuit the MUD won this election where Henrique Capriles got less than 40% of the vote against Maduro in 2013.

[Kosmos]

What will the opposition - practically speaking - be able to do with this majority? I hear the appointment of ministers is the perogative of the president, so that's out. Perhaps provide amnesty for Leopoldo Lopez and others like him?

[ag]

What will the opposition - practically speaking - be able to do with this majority? I hear the appointment of ministers is the perogative of the president, so that's out. Perhaps provide amnesty for Leopoldo Lopez and others like him?

A lot more than that (for amnesty a simple majority would have sufficed). With 2/3 they can even change the constitution, and that could, potentially, be big.

[Bacon King]

so does anyone have info on the partisan breakdown among the victorious MUD candidates?

[Bacon King]

Municipality map (not mine)(click to embiggen)

[Skye]

so does anyone have info on the partisan breakdown among the victorious MUD candidates?

Not yet. It will come, eventually.

[Skye]

I lied. Here it is:

http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2015/12/09/conoce-cuantos-diputados-obtuvieron-los-partidos-politicos-de-la-unidad/

PJ 33
AD 25
UNT 21
VP 14

[RodPresident]

I lied. Here it is:

http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2015/12/09/conoce-cuantos-diputados-obtuvieron-los-partidos-politicos-de-la-unidad/

PJ 33
AD 25
UNT 21
VP 14

Then probably Julio Borges as speaker?

[Hash]

Seems like somebody else beat me to a municipal map, but I prefer mine:



On the other hand, here's something new - results by parish in the Capital District, i.e. the urban centre of Caracas (Municipio Libertador).

[Skye]

Seems like somebody else beat me to a municipal map, but I prefer mine:

I do prefer yours too. I made a map of my home state Carabobo, by parish.

[Famous Mortimer]

Seems like somebody else beat me to a municipal map, but I prefer mine:



On the other hand, here's something new - results by parish in the Capital District, i.e. the urban centre of Caracas (Municipio Libertador).

Obvious question, what is SI?

[Skye]

A smaller third party that split the vote with the MUD in Táchira.

[Famous Mortimer]

Duh, what's the same of the party though?

[Skye]

Duh, what's the same of the party though?

Solidaridad Independiente. "Independent solidarity".

[Tender Branson]

LOL, classical Maduro gamble:

The heavily pro-Maduro Supreme Court has blocked 3 future opposition MPs from taking office when the new parliament convenes, which means the opposition has no 2/3 majority (which they got in the election) ...

[Skye]

It really is a dreadful situation. And it's all being done ATM, you know when the Supreme Court should be on vacation. Chavismo never changes.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

in a SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT Maduro has just taken from Congress the ability to control appointees to the Central Bank but also withhold data if it deems its publication a threat to national security or economic stability. I assume eventually the body will be used for renaming postoffices or something.

[Skye]

in a SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT Maduro has just taken from Congress the ability to control appointees to the Central Bank but also withhold data if it deems its publication a threat to national security or economic stability. I assume eventually the body will be used for renaming postoffices or something.

It's typical of chavismo to take away power from the opposition when they win, but this is just on another level.

[Bacon King]

More information on the legislator situation if anyone is curious:

• After the election, losers can file legal challenges to the results with the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice
• The Court recieved challenges from five regions but rejected all of them except Amazonas
• Until the trial is over, four MP's can't swear in: the three elected from Amazonas (2 MUD, 1 PSUV), and the winner of the southern indigenous district (1 MUD), which includes Amazonas
• The legal complaint includes claims of vote-buying, voter fraud, and suspicion regarding the "unusually high number of blank votes" (Amazonas actually had a below average number of blank votes)
• The complaint was filed by the director of the Amazonas PSUV
• The national chairman of the PSUV campaign has published a recording wherein someone claiming to be Victoria Franchi (a close associate of the Amazonas Governor Guarulla) discusses a plot to pay people to take illiterates and the elderly to polling stations and "help them vote" for the right candidates
• In December, Franchi was detained by the notorious SEBIN but later released
  
• Franchi, Guarulla, and national MUD leaders claim the recording is fake and that this is just an attempt to prevent the supermajority from being seated
• MUD is threatening to seat the deputies anyway - not sure how that will go down

If the Court decides that fraud was present, then Amazonas must promptly have a revote. If that happens, then realistically only one seat might change hands. The indigenous seat will remain MUD and the list vote will keep a 1 MUD - 1 PSUV split. Only the at-large district seat would be seriously contested - the MUD candidate only won by 2,260 votes last month (a 3.5% lead)

[kelestian]

By the way, the Supreme Court took over the functions of Congress
"As long as the situation of contempt in the National Assembly continues, this constitutional chamber guarantees congressional functions will be exercised by this chamber or another chosen organ," the court said in its ruling.

[WMS]

By the way, the Supreme Court took over the functions of Congress
"As long as the situation of contempt in the National Assembly continues, this constitutional chamber guarantees congressional functions will be exercised by this chamber or another chosen organ," the court said in its ruling.

Thread over here discussing that.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

in a SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT Maduro has just taken from Congress the ability to control appointees to the Central Bank but also withhold data if it deems its publication a threat to national security or economic stability. I assume eventually the body will be used for renaming postoffices or something.

Not even that, apparently.