Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was declared the winner in Venezuela\u2019s presidential election Sunday, even as his opponents were preparing to dispute the results, setting up a high-stakes showdown that will determine whether the South American nation transitions away from one party rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elvis Amoroso, head of the National Electoral Council, said Maduro secured 51% of the vote, overcoming opposition candidate Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong>, who garnered 44%. He said the results were based on 80% of voting stations, marking an irreversible trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the electoral authority, which is controlled by Maduro loyalists, has yet to release the official voting tallies from each of the 30,000 polling centers, hampering the opposition\u2019s ability to verify the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The delay in announcing results \u2014 six hours after polls were supposed to close \u2014 indicated a deep debate inside the government about how to proceed after Maduro\u2019s opponents came out early in the evening all but claiming victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Opposition representatives said tallies they collected from campaign representatives at 30% of voting centers showed Gonzalez trouncing Maduro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was declared the winner in Venezuela\u2019s presidential election Sunday, even as his opponents were preparing to dispute the results, setting up a high-stakes showdown that will determine whether the South American nation transitions away from one party rule. Elvis Amoroso, head of the National Electoral Council, said Maduro secured 51% of the vote, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[10387,11399,539,12785,911,2264,12704,11377,1776,6431,13301,5510,5857,10885,594],"class_list":["post-43434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-campaign","tag-debate","tag-delay","tag-dispute","tag-election","tag-government","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-presidential","tag-presidential-election","tag-release","tag-results","tag-venezuela","tag-venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro","tag-victory","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43435,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43434\/revisions\/43435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}