Nicolas Maduro was re-elected President of Venezuela.
According to TASS news agency on July 29, the Venezuelan Electoral Council announced that, after counting 80% of the votes, Maduro had received the support of 5,150,092 voters, equivalent to 51.2% of the country's total electorate.
Specifically, according to the source, the President of Venezuela's National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso, stated that incumbent President Nicolas Maduro has won the country's presidential election, meaning he will be re-elected for a third six-year term.
According to the council's initial statement, after counting 80% of the votes, Maduro received the support of 5,150,092 voters, equivalent to 51.2%.
His main opponent, Edmundo Gonzalez, representing the right-wing parties, won 4,445,978 votes, equivalent to 44.2%. The remaining 4.6% of voters cast their ballots for eight other candidates in this race.
According to TASS, Amoroso explained that the delay in announcing the results of the July 28 election was due to an attack on the election authority's data publishing system.
Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, said that presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez's campaign team would not concede defeat in the election. Throughout the day of voting, CNN's Spanish-language news channel broadcast statements from Gonzalez's supporters asserting that he was leading Maduro.
