Venezuela’s ruling party is celebrating what it has described as an overwhelming victory in regional and parliamentary elections, which were boycotted by the majority of opposition parties.
The electoral council, which is dominated by government loyalists, says candidates for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro’s party won the race for governor in twenty-three out of the country’s twenty-four states.
The main opposition parties called the elections a farce, opposition leader, María Corina Machado, said turnout had been below fifteen percent.
