Venezuela, fight in Parliament
kicking and punching: twenty wounded

CARACAS – A megarissa in full Parliament. A clash between the growing tensions between the majority and the opposition after the presidential elections on April 14th. It all started when the president of the assembly, Diosdato Cabello, forbade political opponents to intervene in the courtroom until they recognized the official results of the vote, namely the victory of Nicolas Maduro, successor of Hugo Chavez. The opposition has rebelled, also showing a banner on the benches. And the two fronts came to the hands. In the end, more than twenty were wounded: 17 only among the anti-Hadrists.

“I am not the only one to have been hit”, he said – with a bloody face and a swollen eye – the right-wing MP Julio Borges on the private television channel.” It all started when we reported the current coup. ” socialist Odalis Monzon replied that the violence started from the opposition benches, the Venezuelan opposition disputed the presidential results and demanded a new counting of votes, according to the National Electoral Council, and with a participation rate of 79% Nicolas Maduro – dolphin of Hugo Chavez got 50.7% of the votes, against 48.9 of Governor Henique Capriles: a difference of just 265 thousand votes, the narrowest margin since 1998, the year of the rise to power of Chavez. On the other hand, contesting the result has already caused much violence in the country, with several victims in the clashes between the police and the anti-Chadists.

(01 May 2013)