“Venezuelan
President Nicolas Maduro said that the most humble will play a great
role in forthcoming parliamentary elections. The Venezuelan people
will cast a 'punishment vote' against the ultra-right at
parliamentary elections at the end of the year, the country’s
socialist president, Nicolas Maduro, said Tuesday The
democratically-elected head of state told teleSUR that in the polls
the poorest will play a key role.”
“The
ruling socialist party has been in power in Venezuela for more than
15 years in which time living conditions for the poorest have
improved immeasurably. In March, Venezuelan Social Development
Minister, Hector Rodriguez, announced that the level of extreme
poverty in the country had dropped to a record low of 5.4 percent in
2014. The figures are the latest milestone in poverty reduction in
Venezuela, following the prioritizing of social investment.”
“When
former President Hugo Chavez came to power in 1998, 21 percent of
homes were registered as experiencing extreme poverty and earlier
that decade as economic crisis hit Venezuela extreme poverty topped
42 percent. The objective of the socialist government’s policy is
to reduce the extreme poverty index to zero by 2019.”
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