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Article: Populists win majority in Venezuela Assembly charged with writing new constitution
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 26, 1999
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In a vote that President Hugo Chavez called "the most important of
the past 100 years" for Venezuela, his followers have won a
resounding majority of seats in a national Assembly that will write
the new constitution he says he needs to carry out a sweeping "social
revolution."
With nearly four-fifths of the vote counted early Sunday night,
candidates from Chavez's populist Patriotic Pole coalition had won
three-quarters of the seats for which official results were
available. Jubilant leaders of the alliance predicted that the final
count would end up giving them as many as 100 of the 131 seats that