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Latin America
Poll: Venezuelans Would Vote Out Chavez
2003-08-06
A poll has found that a majority of respondents would vote President Hugo Chavez out office, giving hope to those calling for a referendum on his rule.
Not that Hugo will ever give them the chance.
The survey asked voters how they would vote in a referendum on Chavez rule, and 65 percent said they would vote for him to quit while 32 percent said he should stay in office, according to results released Tuesday by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Public Opinion Strategies. The door-to-door poll, which was conducted by the two U.S. firms on behalf of Radio Caracas Television, questioned 1,000 adults nationwide between July 14-20. It had a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
As opposed to the average poll in Havana which has a margin of error of 0.0 percentage points.
The results come less than two weeks after a local poll found more than two-thirds of those surveyed would oust the embattled president. Both polls raised the hopes of opposition leaders trying to organize a recall referendum.
I'd guess that both polls make the referendum that much less likely...
Venezuela’s Constitution allows citizens to petition for a referendum halfway into a president’s six-year-term. In the case of Chavez, that would be Aug. 19. Opposition groups agreed Tuesday to unite their efforts to request the referendum on Chavez’s rule and establish a mechanism to choose a single candidate for a future election. The president’s opponents want to hold the referendum later this year.
"Hi, we’re from the Hugo for Life Commission. Would you like to sign this petition to recall our dear Presidente, in which case we’ll beat you senseless and steal your hubcaps, or would you like to see our dear Presidente elected for life, in which case here’s a hundred dollars?"
"Since you put it that way ..."
Posted by:Steve White

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