Venezuela’s electoral authority on Monday formally proclaimed Nicolás Maduro the winner of the presidential election the day before, the result of which was rejected by the opposition and questioned by several countries around the world.
“Venezuelans expressed their absolute will by electing Nicolás Maduro Moros as president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela for the period 2025-2031”said the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso, close to Chavismo.
He National Electoral Council (CNE)of official line, proclaimed the president for a third consecutive term of six years with 5.15 million votes (51.2%)after counting 80% of the votes. González Urrutia received 4.45 million votes (44.2%)according to this first bulletin.
Nicolas Maduro was proclaimed president of Venezuela
“There will be peace, stability and justice. Peace and respect for the law”said Ripe In his first statements after the announcement of the result, before hundreds of supporters at the presidential palace Miraflores.
The announcement of his re-election was immediately questioned by United States, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Argentina, Spain, Uruguay and the European Unionwho called for “total transparency” in the vote count. While China, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras and Bolivia they congratulated him.
In Colombiawhich shares a long border with Venezuela, the government of Gustavo Petrothe first left-wing president in the country’s history, called for “a complete recount of the votes, their verification and independent audit.”
In power since 2013, Ripe is projected to remain in the presidency for 18 years, until 2031. Only the dictator Juan Vicente Gomez He will have governed longer than him, with 27 years (1908-1935).
The opposition denounced irregularities in the vote count
During the election day The opposition denounced irregularities in the vote countFirst, because witnesses were prevented from accessing the voting centres to witness the process, and then because they were unable to obtain copies of the minutes issued by the voting machine (the system is automated), to which the parties are entitled by law and which are used to compare the official result.
The opposition He also denounced the arrest of some 150 people linked to the campaign, 37 of them in the last two days.
Most polls favored the opposition, after years of a crisis that contracted the Gross domestic product 80% and pushed more than seven million people into exodus, according to data from the UN.
Machado He urged his supporters to remain at the polling stations collecting the ballot papers they had not yet received.
“I ask all communities in Venezuela to go with their families to accompany them to the voting centers,” said the leader. “We will continue this vigil of civic celebration tonight and will continue until peace prevails.”
“We have said it: the end is the end,” he insisted, repeating his campaign slogan, which has become almost an opposition mantra.
The coalition Unitary Platform united around Machado to face Ripe after being excluded from the 2018 election, which she considered fraudulent. She had previously been accused of seeking to destabilize the country through violence.
Source: Ambito
