Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Monday told the state-run broadcaster 'Venezolana de Television' that the opposition parties would never again win the presidential elections in Venezuela.
According to Notimex, Chavez via telephone from Cuba told the station, "The opposition will no longer be winning presidential elections in Venezuela. We will give them the final 'knockout' blow and even I haven't begun my campaign."
Chavez has been receiving cancer treatment in Cuba since last week. It's the fifth time the Venezuelan head-of-state is in Cuba for tumor-related treatments in the pelvis area.
Chavez assured that upon returning to Venezuela in a few days he hopes to progressively initiate the first round of his campaign, according to the Mexican media agency.
Not only that, he aspires to win at least 70 percent of the all the votes, something he said he is going to work really hard for.
The Venezuelan President has kept Venezuelans in a state of uneasiness not due to his frequent absence from the country to get therapy in Cuba but due to the uncertainty his health is casting over the future of Venezuelan politics.
At least one lawmaker from Venezuela address the president directly with, "I ask you, Mr. President, in the name of Venezuelans, to inform a medical board precisely what it is you have, so that the nation finally can find out. We cannot keep standing here and raising our hands until we find out what we are dealing with, and how long the president has been told he has to live, because this is a matter of state," according to Fox News Latino.
There is no sign that Chavez's trips to Cuba will discontinue for the days to come, and with the national Venezuelan elections taking place on October 7 of this year, it seems that Chavez is trying everything he can to get his health running at 100 percent by then. Not only to regain his health by then,
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