Oct 7, Election in Venezuela

[mari&Ryan 93]

Tomorrow is Election day in Venezuela. We will be voting to elect the next President. I'm a proud U.S citizen as well as Venezuelan. So, I'll have the opportunity of exercising my right to vote tomorrow and again in a month. This election has something different than others in the past. This is probably the first time that the opposition in Venezuela has a Real chance to beat Hugo Chavez who has been the president for almost 14 years.

I'm not going to lie; I do not trust the Electoral organism there because I believe as many others venezuelans that it's totally controlled by Hugo Chavez. However, it's what we have and it's too late to change it now. I'm hopeful that the opposition candidate Henrique Capriles will be elected, but at the same time I'm very skeptical because in Venezuela with Hugo Chavez controlling the powers, anything is possible.So, we'll see tomorrow night, perhaps much later at the earlier hours on Monday.

The system in Venezuela does not allow to the Media or a particular to release poll or results (I honestly think that we hear the results first in the U.S. than the people in Venezuela). Unfortunately, we'll have to wait for the Electoral organism to give the results that can be anytime from 4 hours after the voting concludes to even the next day. I think if the preliminaries results are not favorable to Chavez, it's going to be even longer to get the official results. I believe the time has arrive in Venezuela for a real change and hopefully Chavez will not be elected for 6 more years, 14 years have been more than enough. He has to go has he never should have been elected on the first place. As I said before I'm hopeful but still skeptical. Let's see what will happen tomorrow. Finally, I don't need to say that I'm voting for the opposition candidate. 14 years is more than enough time for any President, Chavez has to go. Fingers crossed

Total l# of electors: 18.802.648

Total of electors to vote abroad: 100,495

Here the candidates:

Opposition candidate: Henrique Capriles Radonsky, age 40.

Hugo Chavez Frias, age 58.

These are some articles to give you an idea of what's going on:

http://www.washingto...b71a_story.html

http://www.cnn.com/2...file/index.html

http://www.foxnews.c...ntial-election/

I will back as soon as get some updates from Venezuela to post them here (hopefully positives ones!).

P.S. sorry for the typos and grammar mistakes.

Edited October 6, 2012 by mari&Ryan