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😨   The Guardian view on Venezuela's elections: making the people's votes count | Editorial

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Nicolás Maduro claimed victory. Protesters say otherwise – and it isn’t just the president’s usual foes who are expressing concernEven before Venezuelans went to the polls on Sunday, it was entirely predictable that Nicolás Maduro would declare victory and that the opposition would call the election a sham, as before. So it came to pass. With most of the vote counted, the government-controlled electoral authority said that the incumbent president had taken 51% of votes while his rival, the former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, had won 44%. The opposition say that they have voting tallies proving otherwise, and that Mr González is president-elect: “The Venezuelans and the entire world know what happened,” he said.Two things have changed.

The Guardian     Jul 30, 2024