The yes option, which favored the amendment, obtained 6,310,482 (54.85%). With this, articles 160, 162, 174, 192 and 230 of the Constitution were amended.
This Sunday marked 16 years since the constitutional amendment that eliminated obstacles to the re-election of elected officials. That Sunday, February 15, 2009, 11,710,740 of the 16,652,179 registered in the Electoral Registry came to vote, according to the National Electoral Council.
The yes option, which favored the amendment, obtained 6,310,482 (54.85%). With this, articles 160, 162, 174, 192 and 230 of the Constitution were amended.
Upon hearing the results, then-president Hugo Chávez went out to the town’s balcony and expressed what his remaining four years of political life would mean. “Today you have already committed me for life; that is why, here on the Balcón del Pueblo I remain entirely dedicated to the battle,” he said.
This amendment allowed Chávez to run for a fourth presidential term in the elections of October 7, 2012, where he won with 55.7%. mon
