Tipping Point Circuits: Yaracuy 3 and Sucre 1
Caldera's home base and the dirt poor Caribbean Beach Paradise that is Carúpano are the other circuits that could conceivably tip us over into a 3/5ths majority.
Politics
Politics, actually
6D will deeply transform Venezuela's political landscape. How? By reintroducing politics into it.
The coming transition and the politics of score-settling
With the light at the end of the tunnel getting brighter by the day, there are still plenty of ways MUD can screw up. Engaging in revenge and score-settling is one of them.
Tipping Point Circuit for 3/5th Majority: Zulia 4
Following on from our list of most likely Tipping Points for the simple majority, we turn to the 3/5th majority. Because three seats have been added to the...
A supermajority kind of sucks too, though
I have this dark vision that after the elections we’ll be making great efforts to explain —on repeat mode— to a non-believing mass that a simple majority doesn’t really suck. Or at least, that it sucks in the same way as a supermajority would.
MEPs too scared to come to Venezuela. PP calls BS on them.
Burundi, Afghanistan, Honduras and Myanmar are a-ok for Members of the European Parliament to go and witness elections. Venezuela? Why, that could be dangerous!
Canaimita Madness
In Guayana these days you can't get anti-retrovirals, or toilet paper, or rice. You can, on the other hand, get a free bolivarian/android tablet, if you're willing to sit through some really tedious speeches.
In Lara 3, Gómez Sigala is just not going to take it anymore
A quite competitive race is under way in one of the safest opposition seats in the country. In one corner, the MUD coalition and Lara’s State Governor Henri...
Pragmatism: The Real "Como Sea"
Think the opposition can't overplay its hand, alienate its potential allies and waste yet one more chance to rally popular support against the government? Think again.
Diosdado, softly
What if we wake up on 7D to a dystopian nightmare where Diosdado Cabello has all the money and all the power?
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