08/05/2024

Maduro Lost Election, According to Tallies from Venezuela’s Opposition

Edmundo González likely beat President Nicolás Maduro in the recent election

Venezuela’s opposition candidate likely received more than twice as many votes as President Nicolás Maduro in the country’s election last week, according to a Washington Post review of more than 23,000 precinct-level tally sheets collected by the opposition, a sample that represents nearly 80 percent of voting machines nationwide.

That conclusion, which echoes the results of independent exit polling and similar independent analyses, offers further evidence against the authoritarian socialist’s claim that he defeated challenger Edmundo González in the July 28 vote.

Venezuela’s national electoral council, which is controlled by Maduro, has declared him the winner, with nearly 52 percent of the vote to González’s 43 percent. But a week after the vote, the council has yet to make precinct-level results to support the claim available to be audited, as required by Venezuelan law.

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