Venezuela election results, live: Minutes, protests and Nicolás Maduro’s last minutes

July 29, 2024 – 18:53

Fair verification, vote counting, fraud: President Nicolás Maduro’s re-election is raising concerns inside and outside Venezuela, with many world leaders demanding transparency after an election the opposition claims he won. The Venezuelan election authority formally declared Maduro, who has denounced the coup, the winner of the presidential election on Monday, while the opposition claims he has been the victim of fraud. “An attempt is being made to carry out a coup again in Venezuela, of a fascist and counterrevolutionary nature,” the leftist president, who was re-elected for a third six-year term according to results released by the National Electoral Council (CNE), denounced the official line. Meanwhile, on the streets of the country, uncertainty is growing about the steps to be taken by the opposition led by María Corina Machado and her candidate Edmundo González, who demanded an end to 25 years of Chavismo in Venezuela and rejected the electoral result. The government has accused the opposition of trying to destabilise the country through violence. The president of the CNE actually denounced the alleged hacking of the electoral system to “adulterate” the results, and Venezuela’s attorney general linked Machado to it.