The National Electoral Council of Venezuela (CNE) affirmed that Nicolás Maduro won the Venezuelan elections with 51.2% of the votes.
Opposition front candidate Edmundo González reportedly obtained 44.2%, according to the electoral institution controlled by Chavismo.
The results were announced in a televised appearance by Elvis Amoroso, the president of the CNE, shortly after midnight Venezuelan time.
Shortly before the official announcement, opposition candidate Edmundo González assured in X that “the results are undeniable. The country chose a peaceful change.”
After the official announcement, Maduro went out to celebrate at the Chavista rally in front of the Miraflores Palace, shouting “respect for the popular will.”
“I will defend our democracy,” he said shoutingto cheers from the crowd.
“Thank you for giving this victory to this people who deserve it (…) we were not born on the day of the cowards, of the lukewarm, of the timid, we were born on the day that the liberator gave birth to this country,” he said, demonizing the opposition and the electoral audits, and alluding to the American sanctions.
Following this controversial result, the response of the opposition and its social bases, as well as the reaction of the international community, remains to be seen.
For now, Chilean President Gabriel Boric has tweeted that his country will not recognize results that are not verifiable.
“The Maduro regime must understand that the results it publishes are difficult to believe. The international community and above all the Venezuelan people, including the millions of Venezuelans in exile, demand total transparency of the minutes and the process, and that international observers not compromised with the government account for the veracity of the results. From Chile we will not recognize any result that is not verifiable,” wrote in X.
On the opposite side of the Latin American political community, Argentine libertarian Javier Milei said that Argentina “will not recognize another fraud, and hopes that the Armed Forces will this time defend democracy and the popular will.”
The Havana regime, for its part, has celebrated the victory of its allies.
“Today the dignity and courage of the Venezuelan people triumphed over pressures and manipulations,” tweeted President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
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