Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, has secured a second term in office, when announced by the political power shortly after midnight on Monday. Despite many exit polls that suggested the opposition was on the verge of winning the election, this success comes in.
According to reports, the critics are gearing up to challenge the benefits.
Despite counting 80 % of the polling stations, the National Electoral Council announced after midnight that Maduro had won 51 % of the vote, surpassing Edmundo González, the candidate in charge of the opposition, who received 44 %.
However, the electoral authority, controlled by Maduro’s friends, did not immediately publish the official counters from each of the 30, 000 polling stations nationwide, hindering the opponent’s ability to dispute the benefits after claiming they had access to voting works for only 30 % of the vote boxes.
Six hours after the polls were scheduled to close, the delay in announcing the results led to a heated interior controversy within the government over how to deal in response to the opposition’s initial claims of success.
Opposition members claimed that the counts collected from battle associates at the voting stations indicated a spectacular victory for González over Maduro. The most significant concern facing Maduro’s pay for a second term was González, a retired diplomat who was largely unknown to voters before being chosen as a impromptu substitute for opposition head Maria Corina Machado in April.
If Maduro is elected for a further six years, the outcome of the election may include a far-reaching impact on all of the Americas, with both state supporters and opponents signaling their desire to leave their own countries and emigrate there.
After years of inner strife and election protest that hampered their attempts to dislodge the ruling party, the opposition finally managed to unite behind a single member.
