Fictitious rows: to hide low turnout, the Maduro regime takes false voters to polling stations

Los Javillos Avenue, the Cemetery, 8 in the morning. In the queue you see people but they are people of the same, they take the photo and then show the video on television. They take the photos, the video, and then they take them off, ”denounces a Caracas neighbor who took these images from the window of his house. Like his complaint, many others are multiplied by social networks, where the Chavista dictatorship fails to censor the flow of information.

Nicolás’s regime Maduro knows that this Sunday’s parliamentary elections lack legitimacy inside and outside of VenezuelaAnd when the electoral process finally culminates this afternoon, it will face the inevitable: that the world will not recognize its results.

In this context, without any type of international recognition and in a country where voting is not compulsory, only a very high turnout would save the Chavista elections. In 2015, when the opposition won the legislative elections, it achieved 74% turnout. Such was the influx of voters that Chavismo could not ignore the opposition victory, as it would have liked to do.

In Venezuela voting is voluntary, not an obligation, and given that polls estimate that 80% of Venezuelans will not participate in today’s elections due to their irregularities, They resort to this type of maneuvering – fictitious queues – to try to hide the failure.

From the early hours of the day, the schools are empty. Infobae toured symbolic electoral centers of Caracas in Chacao, la Campiña, Parque Carabobo and La Florida, where there are usually early lines to vote. This time, that scenario is not observed. And the few voters you see are adults and seniors, no youth.

In the Libertador Municipality, the reporter Ana Rodríguez verified how, even,They went on to mark the floors of the schools to place voters in the queues, but those lines were never filled. No one

Experts estimate that participation will be very low amid the discouragement due to the economic crisis in the country, with years of recession, hyperinflation and collapsed public services. “It is estimated that 70% and 80% abstention in parliamentarians,” Benigno Alarcón, director of the Center for Political and Government Studies at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, explained to AFP.

Juan Guaidó, recognized as the president in charge of Venezuela by the United States among fifty countries, called on his followers to abstain and stay at home. “It will be the best way to reject fraud,” he wrote on Twitter, accompanied by videos of empty voting centers.

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