Venezuela’s National Electoral Commission (CNE) declared socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro the “winner” of Sunday’s fake presidential election, awarding him a six-year term.
This “result” is in stark contradiction to exit polls and preliminary opinion polls that suggested Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez (the only legitimate opposition candidate on the ballot) had won a landslide victory over the dictatorial government. The Venezuelan opposition immediately Contested The “official” results showed González defeating Maduro by about 40 percent of the vote.
Unlike previous Venezuela’s sham election saw extremely low voter turnout, but millions of Venezuelans headed to the polls on Sunday. Explained Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called the vote “great.” Witnesses said long lines formed at polling stations throughout the country throughout the day. Machado was the opposition’s leading candidate, but the Maduro government barred her from running for public office because of her support for international human rights sanctions against socialists.
Footage shows high voter turnout at polling stations in Venezuela only 69,000 Venezuelan migrants Millions As much as 70% of Venezuelans who fled socialism were able to vote on Sunday, as Maduro’s government requires people living abroad to update their voter registration information, making compliance difficult and often impossible.
Supporters of President Nicolas Maduro celebrate after electoral officials declared him the winner of the presidential election, in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, July 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
There were several reports on social media throughout the day of pro-Maduro thugs intimidating voters, most notably from the Socialist Party Colectivo gang Assaulted A shooting occurred at a voting center in Tachira state during vote counting on Sunday evening, killing 40-year-old Julio Valerio Garcia and wounding several others.
Gonzalez won a landslide victory over Maduro at every polling station, according to exit polls and footage posted on social media, sparking early celebrations among Venezuelan voters as vote counting finished. But CNE president Elvis Amoroso addressed the nation late Monday night. declare Maduro was declared the “winner” of this sham election with 51.2 percent of the vote to González’s 44.2 percent.
Amoroso claimed the announcement of the “results” had to be delayed because administration-controlled election authorities “had to resolve an attack on the data transmission system that delayed the transmission of the results,” but did not provide further details.
Machado and Gonzalez Dealt with Shortly after the CNE announced the “results,” Venezuela postponed the announcement of the election results. Machado claimed that Venezuelan opposition candidates had won every state, and said the results claimed by the CNE “are not just a fraud; they are a violation and a disregard for national sovereignty.”
“We won and everyone knows it,” Machado said. “I want to tell the whole of Venezuela and the whole world that Venezuela has a new president and that man is Edmundo González Urrutia. González Urrutia got 70% of the votes and Nicolás Maduro got 30%. This is the truth.”
“We have 40% of the votes. We don’t know where the CNE got the rest of the votes. Edmundo González Urrutia got 70% of the votes, Maduro got 30%. It’s the highest turnout election in history,” she continued. “The regime knows what happened and what it is trying to do. The whole international community knows it, even its former allies.”
Maduro was quick to celebrate his “victory.” Assert Venezuela will have “peace, stability and justice,” the socialist dictator said last week. Threatened If he doesn’t “win” on Sunday it will be a “bloody catastrophe.”
“I ask for peace, love and understanding, and the strength you have given me and the civilian-military-police coalition is the strength to foster the most powerful and greatest national dialogue of economic, social, cultural, political, moral and spiritual understanding,” President Maduro said.
Maduro also claimed that Venezuela’s electoral system had been subject to attempts to “hack” it to prevent the announcement of his “victory.”
“Venezuela has been attacked. A massive hack. We already know from which country it came. A massive attack on the CNE transmission system. Because the devils and evil spirits did not want the attack to be summed up and the results to be published today,” Maduro said, without providing details or evidence to back up his claim.
Maduro’s “victory” was strongly questioned by several regional leaders and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who said he had “serious concerns that the results announced do not reflect the will and vote of the Venezuelan people.”
#breaking newsSecretary of State Antony Blinken on President Maduro’s election victory announcement:
“We are seriously concerned that the results announced do not reflect the will and vote of the Venezuelan people… The international community is watching this very closely and will respond… pic.twitter.com/mhniy80mFM
— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) July 29, 2024
Blinken repeats Promoted The idea of having President Maduro hold “free and fair” elections in Venezuela has been around for years, and he apparently trusted the CNE to run them.
Shortly before the CNE declared Maduro’s “victory,” Argentine President Javier Milley announced in a social media post that Argentina would not acknowledge any new wrongdoings and expected the Venezuelan military to “defend democracy and the will of the people this time.”
“Out, Dictator Maduro! The Venezuelan people have chosen to end the communist dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro. The data shows a resounding victory for the opposition and the world is waiting to acknowledge the defeat of years of socialism, misery, decadence and death,” Milley’s message read.
Dictator Maduro, Ajuela!!!
Los Venezolanos enters the dictator terminal of President Nicolás Maduro. Los Datas presents Victoria Aplastante and El Mundo Agado to reaffirm socialism, miseria, decadence and muerte.
— Javier Milei (@JMilei) July 29, 2024
Argentina’s Foreign Minister Diana Mondino called on President Maduro to concede defeat, saying the margin of votes against the ruling Socialist Party was overwhelming.
“They lost every state by more than 35 percent,” Mondino said. Said“There is no deception or violence to hide the reality.”
Chile’s far-left President Gabriel Boric, who has consistently criticized Maduro’s human rights abuses, stress The results announced by the Maduro government were “implausible” and Chile announced it would not recognize any “unverifiable” results.
Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chavez Robles Explained In a statement, he declared the result “fraudulent” and insisted that “the continent’s democratic governments and international institutions will ensure that the sacred will of the Venezuelan people is respected.”
Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo Expressed He said he received the CNE results “with some scepticism.”
“This is why the electoral observer reports are essential and today, more than ever, we must protect the vote of the Venezuelan people,” Arevalo said.
Peruvian Foreign Minister Javier González Olaechea be criticized The Maduro regime’s fraudulent practices Announced The Venezuelan ambassador was summoned to Lima.
Other regional leftist leaders close to Maduro, such as Colombia’s Gustavo Petro and Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, had not publicly commented on Maduro’s “victory” at the time of writing.
President Maduro received congratulations from his allies. Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, China, Russiaand Iran.
