Shifting goal posts help Venezuela Socialists in parliament vote


  • World
  • Thursday, 05 Nov 2015

People pass by a tent for MIN Unidad Party in a main avenue in Caracas, November 3, 2015. REUTERS/Marco Bello

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela is projecting a drastic set of migration patterns in months leading up to the pivotal Dec. 6 parliament vote: a fiercely opposition district of the capital will lose a quarter of its population while pro-government suburbs will swell 5 percent.

The projection led the elections authority this year to take one parliamentary seat away from affluent anti-government areas of Caracas and add one to the working-class Socialist Party bastion of Los Valles del Tuy outside the capital.

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