“We have the minutes that prove our victory,” said in turn, the opposition candidate Gonzalez and He described the opposition’s performance in the elections as “historic.”
They also called on the Venezuelan population to take to the streets at noon on Tuesday.
Opposition leaders demanded the disclosure of the minutes of the election results. The National Electoral Council (CNE) said shortly after midnight on Sunday that President Nicolas Maduro had won a third term with 51% of the vote, though it did not provide detailed tallies and blamed an attack on the data transmission system for the delay in the count.
“I am so proud to be Venezuelan. On July 28, 2024, we overwhelmingly defeated the regime in a historic civic exercise. At 6pm, Edmundo González Urrutia and I will speak to everyone,” the opposition leader posted on X (formerly Twitter).
The CNE declared Maduro the winner, but the opposition claims there was fraud and they won with 70% of the votes
The election day on Sunday in Venezuela declared the current president as the winner Nicolas Maduroaccording to official data, but the opposition claims that the result is different and that Edmundo González won the elections with 70% of the votes.
On behalf of the Government, they assured that during the course of the elections There was a cyber attack from North Macedonia with the intention of tampering with the results.
The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saabattributed the hacking attempt to the opposition Lester Toledo, Leopoldo Lopez and Maria Corina Machado.
López used his X account to repudiate the accusation and also claimed that there was electoral fraud: “The only TRUTH is that yesterday Edmundo won by a landslide (70/30) and you set up a FRAUD. Let’s be clear, this chapter is just beginning and all of Venezuela is with Edmundo González and María Corina Machado.”
For his part, Maduro was proclaimed president of Venezuela in an act in which he said: “Our people won, they have done it. The forces of the people that we embody, the sovereign military force of Venezuela always firm and the force of the Police with the new Bolivarian concept. It was a historic dayfascism and demons were defeated with the strength of Christ, of Bolívar and Chávez.”
Source: Ambito
