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Opposition critics maintain that President Hugo Chavez and his party have bent rules and ignored the constitution to game Sunday's parliamentary election... with new voting districts and electoral laws that make it virtually impossible for him to lose the majority.
``The constitution calls for proportional representation, and this system no longer provides that,'' said Luis Enrique Lander, the director of Ojo Electoral, one of four national groups monitoring the race. ``Now it's a quasi-majority system. The winners won't take everything, but they will take almost everything.''
