Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been re-elected.

President of the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) Tibisay Lucena said on October 7 that President Hugo Chavez was re-elected in the election on the same day with 54.42% of the votes, while opposition candidate Henrique Capriles received 44.97% of the votes.

In its first announcement of election results with 90% of the votes counted, the CNE said that 80.94% of voters had cast their ballots, the highest turnout ever in Venezuela. The election took place in a transparent manner under the supervision of national and international observers, including a mission from the Union of South American Nations (Unasur).

President Hugo Chávez was re-elected with 54.42% of the vote.
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President Chávez was first elected in 1998 (56% of the vote), and re-elected in 2000 in early presidential elections under a new constitution he pushed for (with 56.9% of the vote), and re-elected for a second time in 2006 (62.8% of the vote). In 2004, he also won a referendum on his confidence, after receiving 59% of the vote.

As head of state, for nearly 14 years, President Chávez has focused on reallocating oil export profits to implement social policies for the poor.

The 58-year-old leftist politician said the election was of great importance because it would determine the country's fate for the next 100 years. He said re-election would allow him to deepen the socialist revolution, which he said would involve increasing investment in social programs, with a pledge to reduce the poverty rate in the South American country to zero within the next six years.

Mr. Chávez will take office for a new term on January 10, 2013 and run the country with the world's largest oil reserves until 2019./.

According to (Vietnam+) - DT