Nicolás Maduro has been declared the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election by the government-controlled electoral authority. After a six-hour delay in releasing the results of Sunday’s election sparked an outpouring of concern from South American governments, the national electoral council claimed Maduro had won with 51.21% of votes compared with 44.2% for his rival, the former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia. Independent observers had described this election as the most arbitrary in recent years and the opposition party is alleging widespread fraud

Source: The Guardian July 29, 2024 10:17 UTC