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Weekly Report - 14 June 2012 (WR-12-23)

Two athletes competing in a different race

“One of the candidates is involved in a 100 metre race; the other an uphill marathon with obstacles.” This assessment of the electoral contest between Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez and Henrique Capriles Radonski came not from a member of the latter’s opposition coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD) but one of the five rectors sitting on the national electoral council (CNE), Vicente José Gregorio Díaz Silva. Both Chávez and Capriles officially registered their candidacies for October’s presidential elections at CNE headquarters in Caracas this week.

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