Venezuela leader urges vote to show 'democracy'
A man pass by a mural that in Spanish reads "Not vote, I beg you" in a street of Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Oct 14, 2017. Venezuelans head to the ballot box Sunday in regional elections that could tilt a majority of the states’ 23 governorships back into opposition control for the first time in nearly two decades of socialist party rule. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
CARACAS — The Latest on Venezuela's gubernatorial elections (all times local):
10:30 a.m.
President Nicolas Maduro says in a newly released video that Venezuelans should vote in yesterday's gubernatorial elections to show the nation has a "vigorous democracy."
Hundreds have been lined up at some voting centers in Miranda, a state surrounding the nation's capital. But other polling sites had very few people arriving to vote.
Polls indicate the opposition has a chance to gain the majority of governorships for the first time in nearly two decades of socialist government. But Maduro says they'll still be subordinate to a pro-government assembly that is re-writing the constitution.
Opposition leaders complain the government-friendly National Electoral Council moved more than 200 voting centers at the last minute, and say several polling sites in opposition-dominant areas opened late.
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