You seem to have confused several different things: Support for socialism, support for the ruling party, and legitimate elections. Venezuelan elections have be

You seem to have confused several different things: Support for socialism, support for the ruling party, and legitimate elections. Venezuelan elections have been widely critized as shams and have been largely boycotted by opposition parties in Venezuela. Venezuela has significant oil wealth but has been ruled by a corrupt and autocratic single party for decades that has squandered and embezzled that wealth.