nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/4e7eb26cdf085d69 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250618s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/4e7eb26cdf085d69 doi eng 342 23 Issacharoff, Samuel Author aut Standing in the Face of Illiberal Elections - Lessons from Venezuela Issacharoff, Samuel Verfassungsblog 2025-06-18 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Venezuela held local and parliamentary elections on May 25th which Maduro’s allies won with an overwhelming majority. Even though Maduro had severely tilted the playing field in his favor, the regime did not have to alter the results from what was evident in the exit polls. This was partly because an important part of the opposition called for a boycott of the elections. We argue that for a beleaguered opposition, the question whether to boycott an election should reflect both pragmatic and strategic considerations of the prospects for democratic resistance. CC BY-SA 4.0 Competitive Authoritarianism Dictatorship elections Opposition Venezuela Verdugo, Sergio Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/standing-in-the-face-of-illiberal-elections/ raw object