CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans waited anxiously for the results of Sunday’s presidential election that could pave the way to an end to 25 years of single party rule, even as some polls remained open more than an hour after a deadline to close.
Associated PressCARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelans waited anxiously for the results of Sunday’s presidential election that could pave the way to an end to 25 years of single party rule, even as some polls remained open more than an hour after a deadline to close.
Opposition activists were already celebrating online and on the streets of capitals throughout Latin America where Venezuelan migrants have settled, what they assured was a landslide victory for González. Their hope was boosted by purported exit polls circulating on social media showing a healthy margin of victory Gonzalez. The polls are not allowed under Venezuelan law.
Voters started lining up at some voting centers across the country before dawn Sunday, sharing water, coffee and snacks for several hours. Sunday's ballot also features eight other candidates challenging Maduro, but only González threatens Maduro's rule. Economic sanctions from U.S. seeking to force Maduro from power after his 2018 reelection — which the U.S. and dozens of other countries condemned as illegitimate — only deepened the crisis.
The opposition has tried to seize on the huge inequities arising from the crisis, during which Venezuelans abandoned their country's currency, the bolivar, for the U.S. dollar.
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