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Is Maduro's government legit?

Yes, he won legit 0 0%
 
No, it was stolen 9 100.00%
 
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Well, since I live in a Country slowly, but surely, being destroyed, maybe I'm not the best person to talk about other countries' situation. But that's bugging me for a while.

Back last year, we had elections in Venezuela, and almost everything was pointing for Maduro's defeat after over a decade commanding Venezuela. I was following the live results almost certain that Maduro were going to lose. People from Venezuela were excited for the results... Suddenly, some "weird things" happened, and after everything being "solved", a guy came to the public and said something like: "Well, Maduro won". End of story.

A lot of people, me included, didn't bought that story. We all can see that Venezuela is facing a crisis, and it's weird what happened. I mean, it's kinda unbelievable that after the venezuelan people take the streets, showing the world the situation of the country, protesting and even destroying Maduro's reputation would just vote for him again.

Today, Maduro seems to be in a lot of trouble, since... Well, based on what I see, the whole world, aside from a few selective countries, are against his government, even pointing that he "stole" the last elections to stay on power. I don't think he's going to stay up for long.

What do you think? Is his government legit?



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Fair elections are a scale, from 0 of total show with only one candidate anyway to 10 as best system ever seen in history.
I'd say that by that scale you can call legitimate something above 6 or 7 and Maduro's win was closer to 4.

Whether there was actual forgery of results is hard to say. Even largest demonstrations aren't representative of whole nation. But I wouldn't be surprised if some votes were "lost/found".

Either way, I don't expect a change of regime anytime soon. My guess is Maduro will hold power till next decade, it's only a matter how ugly means that takes.



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People are against Ttumpnon this, I don't understand but only cause perhaps they don't know the situation since 2014 in the country, if they did they would support Trump on this.... I think. You were right but the details of how Maduro was taken out of power are stranger than fiction.



It's not that people don't want Maduro gone and Venezuela to have elections again, it's that Trump only kidnapped Maduro for oil. He's still backing the current regime hoping his follow up 'dictator' is easier to exploit.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-rodriguez-touts-us-energy-cooperation-diplomacy-in-address-to-the-nation/
Looks like she is.

Trump didn't help Venezuela at all and only made things worse. Same as he's been stoking up tensions in Iran only to watch the protestors die.