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Related: About this forumVenezuelan 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 countrys 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 Sundays election, and they show González with more than double Maduros 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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(7,511 posts)all fake news and rigged. He won.
Marcus IM
(3,001 posts)It's not a good look to be against insurrection at the same time as being for insurrection.