Maduro called for respect for the popular will, even though some countries do not recognize the result.
Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, has been re-elected for a third consecutive term this Sunday, in elections in which he won 51.20 percent of the votes (5,150,092 support), according to the first official bulletin, presented by the National Electoral Council (CNE).
The president of the electoral body, Elvis Amoroso, who announced the data more than six hours after the closure of the centers, said that the result provided corresponds to the scrutiny of 80 percent of the votes cast in this Sunday’s elections, which had a massive influx of voters throughout the day.
According to the first report, the leader of the majority opposition, Edmundo González Urrutia, obtained 4,445,978 votes, which represents 44.2% of the votes.
He assured that “in the next few hours” the CNE will publish on its website the details of the results, table by table, and will deliver to the 38 political parties that competed a digital report on the outcome of the contest.
Before facilitating the results, the president of the CNE said that the data transmission system suffered an attack, which will be investigated, which is why – he explained – delayed more than expected the announcement of the winner, although he did not give further details about it.
This article has been translated after first appearing in Panama American