2008-10-22 13:18:01 - Former presidential challenger, current Zulia State governor and now an opposition candidate for Mayor of Venezuela's western city of Maracaibo, Manuel Rosales, says that regional police are engaging in a politically-motivated campaign of intimidation "because the central government in Caracas knows that it is about to lose in November 23 local and regional elections."

VHeadline Venezuela News reports:

Rosales insists that the Chavez government is trying to depict Zulia State as being out of control and under poor management -- which is exactly what he accuses of the central government itself under the executive control of President Hugo Chavez Frias.

"There is a campaign of intimidation, a putrefaction, a dirty war against us in Zulia

... they are trying to claim that the Zulia State Lottery is a fraud, but they are grasping allegations out of thin air by linking Manuel Rosales with the bandits and thieves they are, without shame, themselves," Governor Rosales told reporters.

"The attitude of the national government, is a campaign mounted because they are desperate since we are going to give them a trouncing on November 23 ... nobody is going to stop Zulia from electing Pablo Perez as the new governor of this State."

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