Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores after the election results were announced (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
Venezuela’s electoral authority today validated the re-election of President Nicolas Maduro with 52% of the vote, against opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia (43%), who denounces fraud and is claiming victory.
The president of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso, made the announcement after 97% of the ballots had been counted, giving 6.4 million votes to Maduro and 5.3 million to his opponent, who the United States, Argentina, Uruguay , Ecuador, Costa Rica and Peru recognized as the winner.
According to Amorosos, the turnout in Sunday’s elections reached close to 60%, with 12.3 million voters out of a total of 21.3 registered voters.
“Massive cyber-attacks from various parts of the world against the technological infrastructure of the electoral authorities and its largest state-owned telecommunications companies delayed the transmission of the results,” Amoroso said.
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