Maduro at an election rally July 25 -- image via X
By Global News Service
Nicolás Maduro was re-elected for a third term in Venezuela’s presidential elections, winning 51.2 percent of the vote. In a July 29 press conference, the president of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso, announced that with 80 percent of ballots counted, there was an irreversible trend pointing towards a Maduro victory, and that 59 percent of the electorate had participated in the elections. Right-wing candidate Edmundo González came in second with 44 percent of the vote.
After the results were announced, Maduro, accompanied by other leaders of Chavismo, addressed supporters at Miraflores Palace.
“There will be peace, stability, and justice. Peace and respect for the law,” he declared.
Maduro stated that his priorities are to advance the economic recovery of the country, to strengthen social projects, and to build spaces of national dialogue and unity among the diverse political and social forces in the country. Another two key priorities are to continue fighting for an end to the blockade and sanctions imposed on the country by the United States and the European Union and to pass the Anti-Blockade Law.
The far-right opposition led by the former presidential candidate Edmundo González and political leader María Corina Machado has refused to recognize the results. Machado claimed in a press conference that González had won 70 percent of the votes, and Maduro had 30 percent. She called on supporters to “continue affirming the victory of Edmundo in all of Venezuela… In the next few days we will continue announcing actions to defend the truth.”
from the Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service
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