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SARose

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Mon Jul 29, 2024, 09:25 PM Jul 2024

Venezuelan opposition says it has proof its candidate defeated President Maduro in disputed election

BY JOSHUA GOODMAN AND REGINA GARCIA CANO
Updated 9:01 PM CDT, July 29, 2024

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — As thousands of people demonstrated across Venezuela, opposition candidate Edmundo González on Monday announced that his campaign has the proof it needs to show he won the country’s disputed election whose victory electoral authorities handed to President Nicolás Maduro.

González and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado told reporters they have obtained more than 70% of tally sheets from Sunday’s election, and they show González with more than double Maduro’s votes. Both called on people, some of whom protested in the hours after Maduro was declared winner, to remain calm and invited them to gather peacefully at 11 a.m. Tuesday to celebrate the results.

“I speak to you with the calmness of the truth,” González said as dozens of supporters cheered outside campaign headquarters in the capital, Caracas. “We have in our hands the tally sheets that demonstrate our categorical and mathematically irreversible victory.”

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Machado told reporters tally sheets show Maduro and Gonzalez received more than 2.7 million and roughly 6.2 million votes respectively.

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This is incredibly sad. Breaks my heart to see Caracas like this.

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Venezuelan opposition says it has proof its candidate defeated President Maduro in disputed election (Original Post) SARose Jul 2024 OP
Maybe they can get Mike Lindell to present their evidence. Marcus IM Jul 2024 #1
Like trump it is kacekwl Jul 2024 #2
It's the Gonzalez losers acting like J-6 frauds. Violent insurrection ongoing by his minions, like J6ers did for tRump Marcus IM Jul 2024 #3
 

Marcus IM

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3. It's the Gonzalez losers acting like J-6 frauds. Violent insurrection ongoing by his minions, like J6ers did for tRump
Wed Jul 31, 2024, 11:38 AM
Jul 2024

It's not a good look to be against insurrection at the same time as being for insurrection.

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