Venezuelans Rejoice
Referendum Yes
Caracas - Sirens, fireworks, and music in the streets of
numerous Venezuelan cities are showing on Sunday there is still joy
in this country, due to the victory that made possible continuous
reelection for public posts.
Thousands of followers of President Hugo Chavez began to celebrate
on Sunday night, after the preliminary official results, and
continued until Monday's early morning.
According to the first official bulletin to announce the results,
after counting 94.2 percent of the votes, the Yes option won
6,003,594 votes, 54.36 percent.
In her report, National Electoral Council Chair Tibisay Lucena said
the adversaries won 5,040,082 votes (45.63 percent), and will not
being able to reach their rivals, when there are 826,250 votes yet
to be counted.
We wish to congratulate the people of Venezuela, for its civic,
democratic and cheerful behavior on Monday, which was an
extraordinary day, said Lucena, highlighting that participation was
over 70 percent, one of the largest ever.
There was massive participation in this electoral day, she said
after congratulating both winners and those defeated.
"We are asking those who won to celebrate with pride, peace and
generosity above all, and those whose option did not win go in
peace, because it was a wonderful day, in which they also played an
important role," she said.
Around 17 million Venezuelans were called to participate this day,
when changes to five constitutional articles were approved.
This way, Chavez followers have won in 10 years 14 of 15 electoral
processes of presidential, parliamentary, regional, and elections
and referendums.
They only lost the referendum held in 2007 for a constitutional
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