Chavez and opposition closed in crucial parliamentary elections campaign－Rermas blog

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday promised a victory by "knockout" in the parliamentary elections Sunday, which aims to maintain its dominance in Parliament, while the opposition called on its season finale to vote massively for a counterweight to the government.

"Five years ago, withdrew at the last minute. If you want to do the same but we're going to beat up these emaciated (derogatory term used to refer to the opposition), traitors, corrupt, shameless, subordinate to the U.S. empire. Here are the Chavez candidates. Those who want to come home with Chavez, "he said in one of his last campaign stops in the state of Carabobo.

The head of state referred to previous elections where the opposition decided not to participate, which left out of Parliament until today.

The heavyweights of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, led by Chávez, participated Thursday in the final campaign events in major cities.

Cries of "Uh, ah, Chavez will not be" more typical of a presidential election were heard strongly in the finale.

Dressed in red and uploaded to a truck, the Venezuelan leader, who maintains a strong popular almost 12 years after coming to power, was the driver of this election campaign, during which he has toured the country accompanied by candidates .

On Sunday, Venezuelans will elect 165 new deputies to the National Assembly (unicameral Parliament), which since 2005 is dominated overwhelmingly by the ruling.

For Bush, a win is crucial to further advance the transition "to socialism" and the deepening of his Bolivarian revolution.

"We have clear where to go and nobody and nothing will stop us," assured Chavez said Thursday.

According to recent polls, the PSUV would be about 52% of voting intentions, which would give the ruling party two-thirds of the seats, due to the proportional system in force.

There are other surveys that indicate an intention to vote almost equally between the other forces and Chavez does not.

Faced with the impressive resources of the ruling, pro-Chavez political forces held not discrete closures campaigns in various cities.

United in the call Bureau of Democratic Unity, a group of opposition parties hope to return with force to the National Assembly on Sunday to curb the president's political projects.

"As of September 26 starts the countdown to the change in the country," said the opposition candidate Richard White.

The campaign of the president's critics have been door to door, convincing the citizens of the need for a plural Parliament and stressing the "ineffectiveness" of the government and the deputies present at the time to answer the most pressing problems society, such as inflation or escalating violence.

"Our deputies are not going to stop doing his duty to represent all Venezuelans, not going to stop controlling the Executive, on Thursday assured Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, coordinator of the Bureau of the unit.