Editorial: China model can save Venezuela's embattled project
China model can save Venezuela's embattled project
By Heiko Khoo April 19, 2013
Venezuela's electronic voting system is scrupulously transparent and fraud proof. It combines finger print recognition, identity card checks, electronic voting and paper records. Compare this with Britain, where there are no identity checks or fingerprinting, and literally anyone can go to a polling booth and vote, as long as they know the correct name and address of a registered elector!
If the Venezuelan opposition wishes to challenge the legitimacy of Sunday's presidential vote, they have twenty working days to take their complaints to the National Electoral Council (CNE) or the Supreme Court. But instead of using constitutional channels they immediately embarked on a hysterical campaign of civil disobedience, violence and bloodshed. The real truth is that the opposition is not interested in verifying the results of the election. It knows that the process was transparent, despite the close result, and is using its electoral advance as a launching pad for an attempted coup d'état with the intent of overthrowing the democratic system and ending the socialist road chosen by the majority.
China, Russia, Latin America's governments and most governments around the world recognized President Maduro's election victory. However, the self-proclaimed world champions of democracy, the United States and the European Union, are in only favour of democracy as long as it serves their interests. So they support the campaign of the Venezuelan opposition to bring a halt to the country's socialist experiment.
President Maduro would be justified in breaking off diplomatic relations with all countries involved in this blatant campaign of imperialist interference. He is correct to ban opposition demonstrations which aim to foster an escalation of violence. The National Militia should be mobilized to maintain peace on the streets, protect public property, and defend the election result, the constitution, and the revolution.
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http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2013-04/19/content_28594927.htm
