Incumbent Nicolás Maduro has won Venezuela’s presidential election, according to the electoral authority. As announced by head of the authority Elvis Amoroso on Monday night (local time) after 80 percent of the votes cast were counted, Maduro received a majority of 51.2 percent.
The most promising opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, got 44.2 percent. The result is “irreversible,” said Amoroso, head of the electoral authority.
Surveys showed different results
However, several opinion polls after the vote pointed to a victory for Gonzalez, and the opposition had said there was “reason to celebrate”. It is the third term of office for the socialist Maduro. However, his re-election in 2018 was not internationally recognised.
“The results cannot be kept secret. The country has chosen change peacefully,” Gonzalez said on X shortly before the results were announced. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado again called on the country’s military to certify the election results. “A message to the military. The Venezuelan people have spoken: they do not want Maduro,” she wrote on X. “It’s time to be on the right side of history. You have a chance, and you have it now.”
The opposition had warned of irregularities and called on its election observers to remain in the polling stations until the end of the counting of votes. However, the opposition’s chief observer, Delsa Solorzano, was prevented from entering the electoral authority building.
Source: Krone
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