Opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia has obtained 44.2% of the votes, with 80% of the total votes counted. Maduro has asked for “respect for the popular will” in his first appearance. The new mandate will begin on January 10.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected for a third consecutive term this Sunday, in an election in which he obtained 51.20% of the votes (5,150,092 votes), according to the first official bulletin, presented by the National Electoral Council (CNE), with 80% of the votes counted.
According to the first report, the candidate of the majority opposition, Edmundo González Urrutia, has obtained 4,445,978 votes, which represents 44.2% of the votes.
In his first appearance after learning of the bulletin, Maduro appeared publicly and asked for “respect for the popular will.” “That is what I ask as president, respect for the Constitution, for the public powers and for the sovereign life of Venezuela, respect for the popular will (…) I will defend our law and our desire.”
He also promised that, with this victory, he will give “his entire life to carry out all the changes that this country needs” and that he will work in his third term “to rescue all the rights violated by the economic war.”
Source: Eitb
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