Chavez aiming to keep control in legislative vote
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President Hugo Chavez was seeking to hold on to his dominant control of Venezuela's congress on Sunday in elections that put his popularity to a critical test.
The opposition has mounted a determined challenge to try to break Chavez's monopoly of power in the National Assembly for the first time in his nearly 12 years in the presidency. "What's at stake is for there to be more democracy," said Stalin Gonzalez, a 29-year-old opposition candidate and former student protest leader. "The country needs a more balanced assembly." (AP)
