[R-G] Everybody shall accept results on the coming elections, Chavez says

[Anthony Fenton]

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Everybody shall accept results on the coming elections, Chavez says

Caracas, Feb 09 ABN.- “We will accept the results, whatever these are.  
That is my call, that is my compromise,” stated the president of the  
United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV, Spanish abbreviation), Hugo  
Chavez Frias.

During at an interview in a private TV channel, the leader of the  
Bolivarian Revolution expressed that he expects the opposition to also  
accept the results of the referendum for the constitutional amendment,  
which will take place next February 15.

“I call you all to vote (...) Do not get confused, Yes for the  
future,” he stressed.

The President affirmed that the constitutional amendment of articles  
160, 162, 174, 192 and 230, for the continuous nomination of  
candidates is not only for the President of the Republic, but for all  
the popularly elected posts.

“The idea is to increase alternation, alternation is not eliminated  
(...) Democracy will increase,” Chavez said.

He also stressed that nobody is going to eternize in power, it is just  
that people can nominate successively and they can just be reelected  
through the people's vote.

Bolivarian Revolution and inclusion

“Venezuela's government decisions to strengthen economy, to grant  
social security, health and food, are taken for everybody; it is for  
the gentlemen from Lagunita (high class urbanization), from Petare  
(popular neighborhood in Caracas); all the policies of the Revolution  
are for all Venezuelans,” Hugo Chavez Frias stated.

“Had it not been for this process of democratic and peaceful  
Revolution, I do not know what would be happening in Venezuela, I do  
not know how many Caracazos (wave of protests and riots on February  
1989) we would have (...) Bourgeois people would not be living  
placidly as they are doing now,” he emphasized.

President Chavez added that “This Revolution aims at including all  
Venezuelans.”

He remarked that the opposition task forces, made by Venezuelan  
students, are part of a conspiracy plan financed by the US empire;  
however, he commented that even though everybody enjoys the social and  
economic achievements of the Bolivarian Revolution.

Poverty zero

Hugo Chavez Frias ratified that in 10 years of Bolivarian Revolution,  
poverty reduced to 25%, and this percentage of the Venezuelan  
population today has free health, education and other social benefits.

Besides, he added that 10 years ago, more than half of the Venezuelan  
population was in extreme poverty.

“Today, Venezuela is a free, sovereign country as it was never before.  
Venezuela has improved remarkably (...) I want to see Venezuela  
without poverty; we have to take that figure to zero,” Chavez stressed.

Security for all

We will not rest until we give security to all Venezuelans and until  
diminishing crime rates, Chavez expressed on Sunday.

“We take strong measures everyday to give security to Venezuelans,” he  
added.

He mentioned that murder for hire and kidnapping are part of the  
Colombian conflict overflowing.

According to him, with the Revolution, insecurity rates decreased  
remarkably, though there are still many things to be done.

To fight insecurity, Chavez expressed that the National Government is  
working on refounding the police bodies and justice, a long-range plan  
that is already progressing.

He expressed however that insecurity is a shared issue and all  
Venezuelans, as well as the media, are responsible in the fight  
against it.

Furthermore, he recalled that the insecurity is a very important  
social issue, in which media and their pro-violence advertisings play  
an important role.

The President referred to information from the Center for Peace from  
the Universidad Central de Venezuela, which show that violence in  
Venezuela raised after the Caracazo, when people exploited because of  
injustice.

He ratified that the Bolivarian Government condemns all the anti- 
Semite acts and practices, stressing that Venezuela's security bodies  
are investigating forcefully the attack against the main synagogue in  
Caracas.

“We have to condemn violence, no matter where it comes from,” he  
emphasized.

Fight against corruption

President Hugo Chavez expressed that the battle against corruption  
aims especially at refounding Venezuelans values, and socialism plays  
an important role in this point.

“Socialism is the best antidote against corruption in society,” he  
affirmed.

He said some cultural values, as well a the judiciary system, have to  
be reviewed, because there are some weaknesses.

Protection against world crisis

The President of Venezuela ratified that the National Government has  
been taking measures to prevent Venezuela is affected from the world  
crisis, like Petrocaribe or the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples  
of our America, among others.

“This crisis has not affected us because we have a stable economy  
(...) We have savings for two years of importations. We have a  
stability that we must protect.”

The capitalist speculation harms the country very much; however,  
governmental missions such as Mercal (a food program) strengthen  
country's sovereignty and help to fight the food corruption promoted  
by the private sector.