Election
Results in Venezuela Favour the People's Forces Election Results 
December 11, 2020.
Deputies to the newly elected National Assembly.
On December 7, with 98.63 per cent of votes cast in Venezuela's
December 6 parliamentary election counted, the President of the
National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela, Indira Alfonzo,
presented the second bulletin of results. She reported that 6,251,080
valid votes were cast, of which the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP), an
alliance of parties led by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela,
received 68.43 per cent. The opposition alliance Democratic Action
received 17.52 per cent; a second opposition alliance, Venezuela
United, received 4.15 per cent, and the Communist Party of
Venezuela/Popular Revolutionary Alternative obtained 2.7 per cent.
Other political organizations that participated received a combined
total of 6.48 per cent of the votes. Turnout was reported to be 30.6
per cent of registered voters. A few days later the
assignment of seats in the new National Assembly was reported, based on
the election that used a mixed proportional representation and
first-past-the-post system. The United Socialist Party of Venezuela
will have 253 of the 277 seats (91.34 per cent); Democratic Action gets
11 seats; Progressive Advance and Change will each have three seats;
Venezuela First will have two; and COPEI and the Communist Party will
each have one seat. Three Indigenous deputies, chosen on December 9 by
their communities following the traditional practices of each, will
occupy the three remaining seats. 
December 9, 2020. Voting
takes place for three Indigenous deputies.
The
Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) sends its congratulations
to the Venezuelan people who under the most adverse conditions of an
all-sided war designed to wear them down and turn them against their
elected government and against each other have expressed their
democratic will in electing a new National Assembly. CPC(M-L) wishes
the people, their Bolivarian government and leadership well and stands
with them as they work to protect the victory they have achieved,
defend their right to be the sovereign decision-makers of their nation,
and go forward with their nation-building project.
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 48 - December 12, 2020
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Election
Results in Venezuela Favour the People's Forces: Election Results
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