December 3, 2007

Look what became of us.

So, I really think anyone is waiting in suspense, but after my very emotional and barely unserstandable thoughts I thought I fill you in with what happened yesterday... we actually won, we did. I honestly didn't we would but we did. No changes to the constitution like Chavez wanted. He was asking for more power and the population said no. They say this were the results:

Proposal
Option: Yes
Votes: 4,379,392
%: 49.29
No
Votes: 4,504,354
%: 50.70
B
Yes
Votes: 4,335,136
%: 48.94
No
Votes: 4,522,332
%: 51.05
Total valid votes: 8,883,746
Null votes: 118,693
1.31
Turnout: 9,002,439
55.88
Abstention: 7,107,225
44.11
Total registered voters
16,109,664

So as you can see, it was really close. Most people don't believe it was actually that close and that we actually had more votes. But the important thing is that we won. And to be honest it was all thanks to the student movement. I don't think students have ever been more involved with an election that they were with this one. The students organized rallies, protests and activities that got the ball rolling. I'm happy, I stayed up late to try and catch the results, and I honestly expected us to lose.
Here are a few of the things Chavez wanted ti implement:

Abolishing Term limits.
Increasing the presidential term from six to seven years.
Expanding social security benefits to workers in the informal economy.
Introducing changes to the country's administrative structure.
Lowering the voting age from 18 to 16.
Ending the autonomy of the central bank.
Placing the president in charge of administering the country's international reserves.
Reducing the maximum working day from eight hours to six hours
Enabling workers to manage by Direct democracy.
Introducing new forms of property: public property belonging to state bodies, direct and indirect social property belonging to society in general, collective property belonging to particular groups, and mixed property in a combination of the above.

So, it was not good. But we actually won one, this just gives us hope that things might just start to get better. I actually believe that people are starting to realize what we're in for, and hopefuly that means we're going to find ways to stop it.

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