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Venezuela Election is Victory of 'Imperialist Counter-Offensive'

© AFP 2023 / JUAN BARRETO(L to R) The wife of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, Lilian Tintori (C) Freddy Guevara, of the Voluntad Popular party, Jesus Torrealba, head of the Democratic Unity Movement (MUD) party and deputy Julio Borges celebrate after knowing the first results of the legislative election, at the MUD headquarters in Caracas, on the early morning December 7, 2015.
(L to R) The wife of jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, Lilian Tintori (C) Freddy Guevara, of the Voluntad Popular party, Jesus Torrealba, head of the Democratic Unity Movement (MUD) party and deputy Julio Borges celebrate after knowing the first results of the legislative election, at the MUD headquarters in Caracas, on the early morning December 7, 2015. - Sputnik International
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The results of Sunday's parliamentary elections in Venezuela represent a victory for "the imperialist counter-offensive" in the country, the press secretary for the Communist Party of Brazil told Sputnik on Monday.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Sputnik) — Venezuela’s Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) opposition coalition received 99 of the 167 seats in the national parliament after its election victory on Sunday, thus defeating President Nicolas Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela that obtained only 46 seats.

"The hard results of the elections in Venezuela last night can only be explained as a direct consequence of the imperialist counter-offensive led by the elites of Venezuela," Jose Reinaldo Carvalho said.

He added that the economic war led by "the imperialist circles" in the country via systematic withdrawal of the consumer goods from the market, turned the voters against the Venezuelan government.

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He also mentioned low oil prices and US diplomatic maneuvers as reasons for the poor economic situation in the country.

Carvalho stressed that despite the "difficult situation" in the neighboring country, Sunday's defeat of the leftist forces in Venezuela was "only temporary" because, in his opinion, "the achievements of the Bolivarian Revolution cannot be forgotten overnight."

The newly formed Venezuela’s National Assembly is set to commence work in January 2016.

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