Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Democracy – fair and square http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_63367.shtml

US Readers of Axis of Logic will all be aware of their daily diet from the corporate media: that Venezuela is run by a “dictator” with autocratic tendencies, is authoritarian, controls all the legally constituted state powers and that the Chávez government is run according to the dictates of the Castro brothers in Cuba.Now, for the first time, a serious study has been carried out by the Foundation for Democratic Advancement based in Canada about the state of democracy in the world. Here is the text of a media advisory from the FDA on electoral fairness in Venezuela:

Venezuela’s federal electoral system received an overall score of 85 percent for electoral fairness in a global study being conducted by the Foundation of Democratic Advancement (FDA), a nonpartisan organization which aims to advance fair and transparent democratic processes.

Out of the twelve countries the FDA has audited so far, Venezuela has scored the highest. Areas of analysis in the study includes fairness in electoral spending, equality of voter say, equality of candidate and party influence and equality of media coverage. A group of diverse and non-partisan electoral auditors rated each section out of 10 points in terms of fairness.

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