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Venezuela's Own Superman

Submitted July 9, 2006 - 3:35 pm by Charlie Hardy
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Super-SUMATE!

While Superman makes his appearance in movie theatres throughout the world, Venezuela’s own comic version, Super-SUMATE, is flying through the political air here once again.

After saying that it would not conduct primary elections unless all the candidates agreed to participate, Venezuela’s self-appointed electoral watchdog has decided to oversee them. But not all the candidates have agreed to participate.

Teodoro Petkoff, possibly the most popular candidate, says that he is not in agreement with the “authoritarian procedures” this organization wants to impose upon the political parties and questions what right SUMATE has to “dictate” to them.

Those are powerful words. I didn’t use them in the editorial I wrote a few months ago about SUMATE but the ideas were there. Is it possible that Mister Petkoff read the editorial?

In any case, it now looks as though there will be primaries among some of the opposition candidates. And when the primaries are over, what will they have proven? Nothing. At the end two questions will remain: who voted in them and who counted the ballots? And, when SUMATE finally issues its report, who will believe it?

Teodoro, congratulations on your honesty this time.

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