Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was re-elected to a second six-year term.
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced on Sunday the re-election of President Nicolas Maduro with 67.7 percent of the vote. His closest challenger, Henri Falcon, came in second with 21.2 percent, while Javier Bertucci was third with 10 percent.
“This was a historic day! The day of a heroic victory! The day of a beautiful victory – of a truly popular victory,” Maduro said.
“The whole of Venezuela has triumphed! Democracy has triumphed! Peace has triumphed! Constitutionality has triumphed [These were] elections that were constitutional, legitimate and legal,” he insisted, before claiming: “We have a president of the people! A working president!”
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