Exit polling released after voting centers began to close Sunday evening showed opposition candidate Edmundo González taking 65 percent of the vote, more than doubling Maduro’s 31 percent, Edison Research reported. Venezuelans were waiting for official results.

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      He’s closer to being a centrist and also worked for the Chávez government. He would almost certainly be much better an Maduro.

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        Isn’t the opposition conservative? If so, doubt it will be good for the people. I don’t know too much about the politics of Venezuela specifically, but I’ve never seen a conservative government benefit anyone but the rich long term.

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          5 months ago

          They are opposing a fake ass “socialist” tyrant so I guess they could be considered conservative in that way?

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            I mean, they seem to be for open markets and pro-Zionist, also more for Christians than indigenous, and against Chavez, who helped a lot of the poor in Venezuela. So far, she’s looking pretty conservative but I’m learning as I go along.

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        Do you know his views on working with the west on oil sales?

        Biden started lifting sanctions on Venezuela, but then Venezuela stated they were invading/annexing Guyana’s oil fields, so, that sanction removal idea died.

        Edit: the dumb part is Venezuela doesn’t seem to have a way to actually accomplish that goal. Yet they were willing to trash their oil sales (their primary export) over the idea.