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Credit: Reuters/Carlos Garcia Rawlins By Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS | Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:15pm EST CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez's allies are bombarding Venezuela's newly anointed opposition leader with attacks casting doubt on the legitimacy of the primary vote, questioning his sexuality and disparaging his Jewish roots. Auguring a rough campaign ahead of the October 7 presidential election, the torrent of accusations against Henrique Capriles began just minutes after his landslide win at the Democratic Unity coalition's primary on Sunday. With Chavez himself uncharacteristically quiet, senior officials and state media have led the attack, denouncing Capriles - a 39-year-old state governor who wants to be Venezuela's youngest leader - as "bourgeois" and "fascist." "Now we know who is the candidate of imperialism, of capitalism and the right wing," said Congress leader Diosdado Cabello, a former military comrade and longtime staunch supporter of the socialist president. "The anti-patriotic candidate has a face. He won't have an easy election campaign." Capriles - the grandson of Jews who survived the World War Two Holocaust in Poland - defines himself as a center-left "progressive" who admires Brazil's "modern left" model of free-market economics with a strong social conscience. The attacks against him foreshadow a tough election battle in the polarized South American OPEC member nation, where Chavez has strong support among the poor and denounces opponents as representatives of a discredited, super-rich elite. The most furious accusations have come from state media commentator Mario Silva, who often targets Chavez's foes on his late night TV show, "The Razorblade." Silva insulted opposition leaders and then read out a purported police document reporting Capriles was caught in a car having sex with another man in 2000. Capriles denied the allegation and said the document was falsified. Police have not commented. Another state radio commentator, Adal Hernandez, wrote a vitriolic profile of Capriles, highlighting his Jewish family background and titled: "The Enemy is Zionism." Capriles, a practicing Catholic, has not responded to the profile. One cartoon, retweeted on Wednesday by a senior Chavez aide, showed Capriles in pink shorts with a Swastika on his arm, squaring up to a much larger, muscular Chavez. He often talks emotionally of his grandparents' escape from Nazi repression. CAMPAIGN BATTLE Capriles comes from a wealthy family but pointedly spends more time in a T-shirt in shantytowns than in his office, and he is seeking to project himself as above the mud-slinging. "I wasn't elected to fight with anyone but to solve problems," said Capriles, who won nearly two-thirds of the 3 million votes cast in Sunday's primary. "The only confrontation I want is against violence, unemployment, corruption and other problems in Venezuela." Much of the official ire against Capriles has focused on Sunday's primary, saying the overall numbers were inflated to give an impression of massive opposition turnout - even though the state electoral authority supervised the poll. Chavez supporters have also demanded to know the source of Capriles' campaign financing, implying pro-U.S. interests have been backing him. The Democratic Unity candidate has responded that his books are open for all to see. Adding to the charged atmosphere, the Supreme Court ordered the opposition on Tuesday not to burn voter registration books from Sunday's vote - a measure they had promised to counter fears there could be retribution. The government for years discriminated against Venezuelans whose names were on a list of people who requested a recall referendum on Chavez's rule, blocking them from jobs, state loans and in some cases even entrance to government buildings. Opposition leaders said the court's order was issued too late, and the lists of voters' names had already been burned. UNITED OPPOSITION Capriles has criticized one-sided coverage by state media, accusing it of routinely ignoring protests about crime and water shortages while extensively reporting "every time a mango falls on a roof" in the state of Miranda where he is governor. He traveled to the Caribbean island of Margarita on Tuesday to visit a shrine and give thanks for his primary victory. Capriles says his religious conviction grew during four months in jail in 2004 after a riot outside the Cuban Embassy which he was accused - but later acquitted - of fomenting. Analysts say the finally united opposition - which in the past has been crippled by in-fighting and failed to dislodge Chavez via mass street protests or a string of votes - has its best chance in 13 years of unseating him in October. Yet the president still appears to have the edge, thanks to high popularity among the poor, a formidable party machine and an extraordinary pre-election spending spree on welfare projects like allowances for single mothers and pensioners. Recent polls show Chavez would win about 60 percent of the vote in October, though analysts say that could change if Capriles runs a dynamic campaign. He plans to start a tour of Venezuela from next week. The Eurasia Group political risk consultancy said Capriles was a competitive candidate because he was young, less connected to the country's old political class and the governor of an important state who enjoyed high approval ratings. "We don't think this will be enough to defeat Chavez, but it points to the fact that the election could be tighter than most anticipate, and that there could be some volatility in terms of expectations in the run up to the election," it said. 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