The dollar In Venezuela it was operating on the rise this Monday, according to DolarToday, in the midst of the wait for the Chávez fiefdom for the results of the new governor’s elections in Barinas.
At the opening, the dollar It stood at 4.92 digital bolivars in the informal market in Venezuela, a level 1.21% lower than the previous day when it was quoted at 4.98, according to data from the portal DolarToday.
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Barinas, home state of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, awaits this Sunday the results of the new election for governor, ordered by the justice, which took the main opposition candidate out of the game when he claimed victory.
In a process marked by complaints of advantages for the ruling party, Jorge Arreaza, former vice president and former chancellor, seeks to maintain the hegemony that Chavismo has had since 1998 in this agricultural region of Venezuela (west), while Sergio Garrido tries to emulate the opposition triumph of 21 November of the original candidate Freddy Superlano later disqualified by judicial investigations.
The military closed the gates of several polling stations after 6:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. GMT), when the process that began 12 hours before and that summoned 607,000 of the 870,000 inhabitants of this state ends.
Normally elections in Venezuela take longer than the stipulated period.
“This land (…) has welcomed me like a son”, Arreaza, a 48-year-old man from Caracas, celebrated after voting in Ciudad Tavacare, a popular housing complex built by the socialist government and full of murals alluding to Chávez, president between 1999 and 2013, and who was the son-in-law and father of his first grandson.
With information from AFP
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