Venezuela: Maduro wins the election – 2024-07-29 20:21:47

Nicolas Maduro is as soon as once more the president of Venezuela securing a 3rd time period because the nation’s president. With 80% of the votes counted, Maduro secured 51.2% in opposition to 44% for opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, whom the polls wished to win.

“The odds introduced consequence from the counting of 80% of the ballots and the result’s irrevocable,” defined the president of the Nationwide Electoral Council (CNE) Elvis Amoroso.

Maduro referred to as the victory a triumph of peace and democracy and reiterated that the Latin American state’s electoral system is clear.

Earlier the opposition assured that it has each purpose to have fun a victory, calling on its supporters to not go away the polling stations in order that the counting of votes stays clear.

The main determine of the opposition, Maria Korina Machado, was sending a message to the Armed Forces. “Message to the Military. The Venezuelan folks have spoken: they do not need Maduro. It is time to stand on the appropriate aspect of historical past. You might have an opportunity, and it is now,” he wrote on X.

The turnout within the vote was 59%.

What does the US need?

The US referred to as for a “truthful and clear depend” after praising Venezuela for holding the election regardless of challenges and considerations over how the method was going.

The top of American diplomacy, Anthony Blinken, requested that the outcomes be made public intimately, within the type of ensures, transparency and accountability.

“Now that voting has closed, it is important that each vote is counted pretty and transparently,” added President Joe Biden’s Secretary of State.