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Weekly Report - 31 July 2025 (WR-25-30)
VENEZUELA: Ruling party sweeps municipal elections amid boycott
The municipal elections that were held in Venezuela on 27 July were only ever going to produce a flush of victories for the ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (PSUV), given that they were boycotted by most of the political opposition. While President Nicolás Maduro was celebrating after bringing even more levers of power under his government’s control, the opposition was left looking more divided than it has been in years. The larger faction of the opposition which boycotted the vote instead sought to draw attention to the anniversary of the disputed July 2024 presidential election, which Maduro is widely believed to have lost. A smaller faction, led by Henrique Capriles Radonski, railed against the decision to abstain, arguing that the opposition had handed the PSUV a home run.
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