As the head of the authority, Elvis Amoroso, announced on Monday night (local time) after 80 percent of the votes cast had been counted, Maduro received a majority of 51.2 percent. The most promising opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, received 44.2 percent. The result is “irreversible,” added the head of the election authority, Amoroso.
However, several polls after the vote had pointed to a victory for Gonzalez, and the opposition had declared that it had “reason to celebrate”. This is the third term of the socialist Maduro. In 2018, however, his re-election was not internationally recognized.
“Country has decided for change”
“The results cannot be kept secret. The country has peacefully decided for change,” Gonzalez said on X shortly before the results were announced. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado again called on the country’s military to confirm the election result. “A message to the military. The Venezuelan people have spoken: they do not want Maduro,” she wrote on X. “It is time to put yourself on the right side of history. You have a chance, and it is now.”
The opposition had warned of irregularities and called on its election observers to remain in the polling stations until the end of the vote count. However, the opposition’s main observer, Delsa Solorzano, was prevented from entering the electoral authority building.
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