He National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela confirmed this Friday that the president Nicolás Maduro won the elections with 51.95% of the voteswhile the opponent Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia -who denounces fraud and claims victory- obtained the 43.18%. However, the minutes with the results broken down have not yet been made available, as requested by the opposition.
The president of the country’s electoral authority, Elvis Amorosoread the updated bulletin with 97% of the voting records counted and assured that Ripe He was re-elected for a third term with 6.4 million votes. For his part, Gonzáles Urrutia, who United States, Uruguay, Argentina and Peru recognized as the winner, he got 5.3 million.
According to the official, there was a turnout of close to 60% with 12.3 million voters out of the 21.3 million registered in the electoral register.
Amoroso, a Chavista, stated that “Massive cyber attacks from different parts of the world against the technological infrastructure of the electoral power and the main telecommunications companies of the State delayed the transmission of the minutes and the process of disclosing the results.”
According to this new statement, in third place was Luis Martinez with 152,360 votes (1.24%); Antonio Ecarri with 116,420 votes (0.94%); Benjamin Rausseo, 92,903 votes (0.75%); Jose Brito, a total of 84,231 votes (0.68%); Javier Bertucci, 64,452 (0.52%); Claudio Fermin, 40,902 (0.33%), Enrique Marquez, 29,611 (0.24%); and finally, Daniel Ceballos with 20,056 votes (0.16%).
The official Supreme justice court (TSJ) on Thursday called on the candidates in the presidential elections, which the opposition has accused of being fraudulent, to appear after accepting an appeal by Maduro for the highest court to certify the process.
The opposition, meanwhile, maintains that it has a copy of more than 80% of the minutes and that González Urrutia obtained 67% of the votes.
Protests erupted on Monday against the results that gave Maduro a third six-year term, leaving at least 11 civilians dead, according to human rights organizations, and hundreds of others arrested.
Source: Ambito
