Venezuela Opposition Criticizes Lack Of Election Results

CARACAS -(Dow Jones)- Venezuela opposition groups are criticizing the lack of results in Sunday's key legislative elections, which are being seen as a referendum on President Hugo Chavez' rule.

"It's been six hours and there are still no results," Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, executive director of the Democratic Unity Table, the main opposition party, said early Monday morning in Caracas.

The polling booths officially closed at 6 p.m. local time Sunday, after a peaceful voting day that saw no major incidents. But directors of the National Electoral Council, or CNE, have been meeting behind closed doors for the past several hours, and that is raising suspicions.

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Opposition alliance asks for election results in Venezuela:

"This cannot be. Affter all this time telling us that we have the most modern, most automated, most perfect election system in the world, and after they promised they would publish the results two hours following closure of polling sites, more than six hours have passed after the polls closed and results have not been announced," said the opposition leader.

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