I am Nicol\u00e1s Maduro Moros<\/a>, reelected president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,\u201d he declared from the stage accompanied by his wife Cilia Flores and other Chavist leaders.<\/p>\n\u201cThere will be peace, stability and justice. Peace and respect for the law,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n
Maduro also reinforced the complaint by Venezuela\u2019s Electoral Council (CNE, in Spanish) about a hacker attack on the electoral system. \u201cThe Attorney General’s Office and the Public Prosecutor’s Office will investigate and charge those responsible. But we already know which country it came from.\u201d Elvis Amoroso, CNE\u2019s president, also denounced an \u201cattack on the data transmission system that delayed\u201d the voting count.<\/p>\n
In his speech, there was no shortage of barbs at Argentinian president Javier Milei, who had said before the results were released that Buenos Aires \u201cwill not recognize another fraud\u201d and called on the Venezuelan military to \u201cdefend democracy and the will of the people,” a euphemism for a coup.<\/p>\n
\u201cJavier Milei can’t take a round with me,\u201d said Maduro, drawing applause from the crowd.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Opposition<\/p>\n
But the opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado did not accept the defeat and claimed victory for his candidate, Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez Urrutia. She even stated, without evidence, that Gonz\u00e1lez Urrutia had \u201c70% of the votes, and Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, 30%\u201d. That\u2019s the truth,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Corina called on her inspectors to remain at the polling stations until the electoral records are made available. The Venezuelan electoral justice system says that 54% of the ballot boxes have been audited, and the opposition says it has only had access to 30% of them.<\/p>\n
The head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, called for a \u201cfair and transparent\u201d vote tally. \u201cWe call on the electoral authorities to publish the detailed vote tally to ensure transparency and accountability,\u201d Blinken said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Maduro was reelected for a third consecutive presidential term, guaranteeing more than six years leading Venezuela. After 25 years of Chavism in Venezuela, Maduro, 61 and, in power since 2013, received 5.15 million votes (51.2%), according to the first official bulletin, which had 80% of the votes counted. He beat opposition candidate Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez Urrutia, who received 4.45 million votes (44.2%). According to Amoroso, 59% of voters participated in these elections. With this, Maduro will probably remain in power for 18 years, until 2031.<\/p>\n
Among thousands of international observers was a delegation from the Carter Center and four UN experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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