{"id":34114,"date":"2024-07-29T04:04:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T08:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/venezuelas-opposition-claims-victory-in-presidential-election\/29\/07\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T04:04:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T08:04:01","slug":"venezuelas-opposition-claims-victory-in-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/venezuelas-opposition-claims-victory-in-presidential-election\/29\/07\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela’s opposition claims victory in presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Venezuela’s opposition has claimed it has won the country’s presidential elections, despite the country’s Electoral Council (CNE) announcing incumbent Nicol\u00e1s Maduro had been re-elected.<\/p>\n

The CNE said early on Monday Maduro had won a third term in office with about 51% of the vote, beating opposition candidate Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez, who secured about 44%.<\/p>\n

However, opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/a><\/span><\/span> claimed the opposition had secured 70% of the vote.<\/p>\n

“We won and the whole world knows that,” she told journalists.<\/p>\n

Gonz\u00e1lez was nominated as a replacement candidate for Machado, who has been banned from office.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the vote, few observers inside or outside Venezuela expected a free and fair election.<\/p>\n

In the run-up to election day, numerous members of the opposition were detained and candidates critical of the government were not allowed to run.<\/p>\n

A total of around 21.6 million people were eligible to vote, including those abroad.<\/p>\n

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