CARACAS — Incumbent President Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner of Venezuela's presidential election on Sunday, but the opposition and key regional neighbors immediately rejected the official results.
CARACAS — Incumbent President Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner of Venezuela 's presidential election on Sunday, but the opposition and key regional neighbors immediately rejected the official results.Maduro won re-election with 51.2 percent of votes, while opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia received 44.2 percent, the electoral council announced.
Machado, who campaigned far and wide for her proxy, had urged voters on Sunday to keep 'vigil' at their polling stations in the 'decisive hours' of counting amid widespread fears of fraud.'Prepared to defend'Rejecting opinion polls, the government relied on its own numbers to assert Maduro would defeat Gonzalez Urrutia, a little-known 74-year-old former diplomat.
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