Chávez refuses to give up obligatory simultaneous broadcasts

Venezuelan President running for reelection Hugo Chávez is not ready to give up his entitlement, as the Head of State, to radio and TV obligatory simultaneous broadcasts, as requested by the opposition apropos the election campaign ahead of October 7.

The president gave the news during an obligatory simultaneous broadcast that lasted approximately three hours.

"Obligatory simultaneous broadcasts form part of the informational strategy of the national government. The bourgeoisie wants me to relinquish a power granted to the President of the Republic. Well, I am not to do it," he said during the opening ceremony of a l-butene at Ana María Campos Petrochemical Complex, located in western Zulia state.

He explained that the main reason for obligatory simultaneous broadcast is that "part of the bourgeois strategy is to hide all the good things done by the revolution."