Venezuela’s Electoral Landscape Favors the Opposition
By
Félix Seijas Rodríguez
The fundamentals of the presidential race bode ill for Maduro, writes a seasoned pollster.
CARACAS — Venezuela’s elections on Sunday will be very different from the controversial votes of the last two decades. The country’s electoral playing field has changed so dramatically that Chavismo, the ruling political movement created by the late Hugo Chávez Frías, faces a real possibility of defeat at the ballot box for the first time in years. Votes matter only if they are counted fairly, of course—a prospect that remains very much in doubt in a country where the government controls all levers of power, including the CNE electoral authority, which is tasked with overseeing...
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