Deleted post by far-right news outlet La Patilla clearly showing the clear popular support towards President Nicolas Maduro in the upcoming July 28 presidential elections in Venezuela. Photo: RedRadioVe.
The Venezuelan far-right has tried multiple times to show its presidential candidate Edmundo González as the favorable candidate in the polls to no avail. Even its own studies have shown Nicolás Maduro as the winner, causing the far-right to hide and censor its own polls.
On Sunday, July 21, a survey promoted by the far-right news outlet, La Patilla, was posted on social media asking users: If the elections were this Sunday, who would you vote for?” The post had the participation of 95,050 users and showed Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the poll with 72% of the votes while Edmundo González only obtained 26%.
The news outlet deleted the post given the unfavorable result for the far-right, however, a screenshot with the data has been circulated on social media and has been mocked by social media users.
The Venezuelan Minister of Communication and Information, Freddy Ñáñez, also posted on social media sharing that the deletion of the original poll was “due to the public failure” of the far-right.
Ñáñez also referred to another survey made by journalist Eugenio Martínez on the social media platform X, of a poll on July 14 in which the majority of participating users gave 99% of votes to Maduro.
On Friday, the general coordinator of the Venezuela Nuestra Campaign Command, Jorge Rodríguez, revealed the findings from Datanálisis, a polling firm that put out a survey at the request of Edmundo González supporters that also indicated Maduro as the winner of the presidential election.
Rodríguez, also presented several other polls in which Maduro is projected as the winner, specifically referring to the result of a survey carried out in the United States by Polymarket, a platform based on decentralized predictions where users make bets on world events, which also showed Maduro as victor with 70% of the votes.
He also denounced the multinational communications company, CNN, for orchestrating a media plan with the far-right Unity Platform party (PUD) that plans to blatantly ignore the results announced by the National Electoral Council on Sunday, July 28.
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Weeks ago, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, warned about poll wars which would use manipulated data by the opposition to inflate its numbers and theoretically influence the voting intention in favor of Edmundo González.
Private and foreign media outlets have disseminated such surveys, with some specialists indicating a structural problem in their statistical sampling, all while dismissing other polls like those by Hinterlaces, ICS, Dataviva and Ideadatos, all of which show Maduro as the victor and clearly present their technical sheet in which they explain the type of sampling, sample size, level of confidence and margin of error.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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