Topic: Electoral Violence and Intimidation
Country: Venezuela
Delegate Name: Jordan Magenta
School: Saline High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Venezuela position papers GLIMUN 2009 committees
Venezuela does not condone the act of electoral violence and intimidation and we as a nation believe it should be struck down with harsh punishments. Under the Chavez government of Venezuela since 1999 we as a nation have not encountered recent acts of electoral violence and intimidation, due to our stagnant leadership. On the other hand before Chavez rose to power in 1999, homicides of all kinds even political and electoral were absolutely out of control. Throughout the history of our country, multiple political factions have performed many hateful and violent acts against other political parties but we found peace under the unity of one party.
Our government has a goal of creating safe and simple political strategies to help establish fair and safe voting. From past experience our nation would suggest allowing countries to form more stable political parties, with rational leaders. Also certain government policies should be changed for example term length, and re-election limit, to better stabilize the government and allow for leaders to get their shot to help their country. This is a extreme strategy that some might disagree with for certain reasons, some might think it might promote dictatorship and some might think it would be impossible to create one unified party and our nation is more than willing to here and compromise on possible less extreme ideals, although they won’t be as affective.
In conclusion we, the nation of Venezuela do not support any act of political violence and intimidation, and from past experience we as a nation have a lot of experience is this unacceptable act. To solve this problem we propose that through the help of political leaders and activists stable political parties are formed and laws be changed to allow for more stagnant leadership.
