Chavez looks to future after poll win.Summary: Opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have complained that his use of state funds for his campaign was unfair. Opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have complained that his use of state funds for his campaign was unfair. Mr Chavez, who has been in power for ten years and vows to rule for decades, won a referendum paving the way for him to stay in power for the rest of his life. He has pledged to repay his supporters by combating their number one concern, crime, which has given the Opec nation one of the world's worst murder rates. The opposition, which was spearheaded by an inexperienced and under-financed student movement, said the former paratrooper's win was secured with huge government funding and blanket state television coverage. "Another sham False; without substance. A sham Pleading is one that is good in form but is so clearly false in fact that it does not raise any genuine issue. " was the editorial headline of leading opposition newspaper El Nacional This article is about the Venezuelan publishing company and newspaper. For other uses, see El Nacional (disambiguation). El Nacional is a Venezuelan publishing company under the name C.A. Editorial El Nacional, most widely known for its El Nacional newspaper. , which complained that Venezuela's electoral commission Electoral Commission (1877) Commission created to resolve the disputed 1876 presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden. Tilden had won the popular vote and was only one electoral vote short of victory, but the Republicans favoured "a military regime that promotes hatred and divides Venezuela in two halves". Veteran rival Teodoro Petkoff Teodoro Petkoff Malec (born in Zulia State, January 3, 1932) is a Venezuelan politician, ex-guerrilla, journalist and economist. One of the most prominent politicians on the left in Venezuela, Petkoff began as a communist but gravitated towards liberalism in the 1990s. denounced Mr Chavez's "illegal and unscrupulous" use of state funds but also captured the mood of defiance in an opposition that must now seek to defeat him in a presidential vote in just under four years. Mr Petkoff said: "They can celebrate today, but on the horizon of 2012 looms a ghost of his inevitable defeat." Mr Chavez, who has survived a coup, a recall referendum and national strikes, retains the loyalty of many Venezuelans who depend on him for jobs, pensions and welfare benefits. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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