Opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia has won 44.2% of the vote, with 80% of the total votes counted. Maduro has asked for “respect for the will of the people” in his first appearance. The new mandate will begin on January 10.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected this Sunday for a third consecutive term, in elections in which he obtained 51.20% of the vote (5,150,092 points of support), according to the first official bulletin presented by the National Electoral Council (CNE), with 80% of the votes counted.
According to that first report, the standard-bearer of the majority opposition, Edmundo González Urrutia, obtained 4,445,978 votes, which represents 44.2% of the vote.
In the first appearance after learning of the bulletin, Maduro appeared in public and asked for “respect for the will of the people.” “That is what I ask as president: respect for the Constitution, the public power and the sovereign life of Venezuela, respect for the will of the people (…) I am going to defend our law and our will.”
Furthermore, he has promised that with this victory he will “devote his whole life to implement all the changes this country needs” and that in his third term he will work “to save all the rights violated by the economic war.”
Source: EITB
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