CARACAS, Monday November 24, 2008 | Update
Politics
The president of the Electoral Board of Andean Táchira
state, Carolina Barrientos de Colmenares, said that out of
1,563 vote records, the board had totalized 1,539 which showed
opposition party leader César Pérez Vivas as the
winner.
"César Pérez Vivas got 49.54 percent of the votes,
whereas Leonardo Salcedo received 48.04 percent. So far, the
trend is irreversible," Barrientos said.
The Electoral Board president expected to total the rest
of the vote records on Monday morning and then they would
proceed to proclaim César Pérez Vivas as governor
of Táchira state.
For her part, the president of the Electoral Board of central
Carabobo state, Roraima Bermúdez, reported that the opposition
leader Enrique Salas Feo is the new governor with 402,904
votes, that is, 47.72 percent.
Mario Silva got 44.29 percent for a total of 373,946 votes,
and Luis Felipe Acosta Carlez was the recipient of 55,445
votes (6.5 percent).
11:00 AM. Economy. Based on the official data, more and more families failed to get out of poverty in 2008; the exclusion status of more people moved faster and fewer people are on their way to overcome this situation. According to the data provided by the official National Statistics Institute (INE), last year the poorest homes in the country recorded an average monthly income of USD 401.82, whereas the food basket amounted to 417.77