The electoral blow was obviously too traumatic for the government: the opposition won control of National Assembly by a landslide, delivering a major setback to the long-ruling socialists.
Only that can explain why Venezuela's National Electoral Council - whose president is loyal to the government - revealed results of Sunday's elections very slowly.
So slowly that even though the votes had long been counted, it took until Tuesday night for the electoral body to post the results on its website.
Not even in their worst dreams could government supporters have imagined the opposition winning a two-third majority.
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