Is the opposition boycotting the elections?
Partly yes and partly no. All the main opposition political parties, such as Primero Justicia, A.D., and COPEI are participating. The reason being that they currently occupy many of the offices up for election and don’t simply want to give them away by boycotting the vote. After all, given that this vote is locality by locality the opposition will be able to win a significant amount of positions in localities where most people support the opposition such as the wealthy areas of eastern Caracas. There have been some opposition members, mainly very small fringe parties that have few if any elected representatives, that have called for a boycott and they led a march of a couple thousand people last week. But as the small size of the march indicated there are few who back the boycott option.
