"We can prove it" Venezuelan opposition declares victory with more than 6 million vote lead

Opposition leader María Corina Machado and presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia said this Monday in a press conference that the coalition obtained a “categorical and mathematically irreversible victory,” after having had access to more than 70% of the minutes of Sunday's presidential vote.

Machado said that her team worked for more than 12 hours to create a web page that houses the results of the electoral records, where each Venezuelan can consult their record using their identification.

“We now have a way to prove the truth of what happened in the elections,” he said. “All the minutes, as we receive them, are verified, digitized and placed on a robust web portal.”

According to the opposition, with 73.20% of the minutes, González obtained 6,275,182 votes, while the dictator Nicolás Maduro was left with 2,759,256 votes in the election.

“Although the National Electoral Council (CNE) gave 100% of the votes to Maduro, it is not enough for them with what we already have. The difference was so big, in all states, all strata, all sectors,” she explained.#Ahora | rueda de prensa: https://t.co/Ut1lBQPLzt

— María Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) July 29, 2024

In the early hours of this Monday, the CNE, controlled by the regime, declared dictator Nicolás Maduro the winner of Sunday's presidential elections.

The country's electoral governing body had said that, with 80% of the votes counted, Maduro had obtained more than 51% of the votes, thus surpassing the opposition candidate Edmundo González, who had obtained only 44%.

After the results were announced, numerous governments in the region expressed their concern and questioned the transparency and legitimacy of the electoral process in Venezuela and demanded that the regime show the minutes of each electoral center.

Those numbers contrasted sharply with other post-election reports from about 40% of the country’s polling stations that the opposition had a 7 out of 10 vote lead over the dictator. By Monday evening, with 73.2% of the voting tallies in, reports revealed by Reuters suggested that Maduro had only won 2.75 million votes compared to 6.27 million for Gonzalez.

Numerous governments in the region, through their leaders or spokespersons, have expressed their concern about the results and have questioned the transparency and legitimacy of the electoral process in Venezuela. Several leading Latin American nations have called for an emergency meeting at the Organization of American States (OAS) to discuss how to handle the matter.