Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro was reconfirmed as leader of the country until 2030: he was the most voted (with 80% of the ballots counted he obtained 51.2% against 44.02% for Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia) .
He will therefore reach the helm of the government at the age of 17, surpassing his mentor Hugo Chavez who in 2012, before his death, chose him within his magic circle to carry forward the Bolivarian socialist project.
«They didn't succeed with sanctions, with aggression, with threats. They didn't make it now and they will never make it with the dignity of the people of Venezuela. Fascism in Venezuela, the land of Bolivar and Chavez, will not pass ", were the first words of Maduro, who celebrated with thousands of supporters concentrated in front of the Miraflores Palace. «Chavez lives. Chavez this triumph is yours. Hasta la victoria always. You are the people of peace, the people of God", he then added, warning of "a massive hacker attack on the center of the Electoral Council. We know who did it. They did it because they wanted to prevent the people of Venezuela from having their official result today. To be able to recite the script they had prepared, to be able to 'scream at the fraud'. Ugly people, ugly people, beautiful people are here with me."
But the opposition rises up and the leader Maria Corina Machado states that "the new elected president is Ambassador Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, with 70% of the votes" .
While fireworks exploded in the sky of Caracas accompanied by notes of salsa and a drone show, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, issued a statement in which he expressed "serious doubts" that the results of the presidential elections represent the will of the people . A few hours earlier, the vice president, Kamala Harris, and seven other Latin American countries had called for "respect for the will of the Venezuelan people" .
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani also writes in X: « I have many doubts about the regular conduct of the elections in Venezuela. We ask for verifiable results and access to documents: does the result announcing Maduro's victory truly reflect the will of the people? ».
