Venezuela: “A bad day for Venezuelan democracy”

Both Miguel Octavio ^[1] and Daniel Duquenal ^[2] are disheartened by opposition electoral NGO, Sumate's decision to forego primary elections. Duquenal says that “the electoral trickery of chavismo is so blatant that it seems impossible to have a free and fair election in December,” however, Oil Wars disagrees ^[3], describing the opposition as “holdovers of the corrupt and anti-democratic pre-Chavez Fourth Republic and therefore have no use for things like internal party democracy.”