CARACAS, July 29 (Sputnik) - With 80 per cent of protocols processed, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has received 51.2 per cent of the votes and won the presidential election, Elvis Amoroso, the chairman of the National Electoral Council of Venezuela, said on Monday, reported Sputnik.
"With 80 per cent of the data received, we issued the first ballot, which shows a strong and irreversible trend. With a participation rate of 59 per cent, the results are as follows. Nicolas Maduro Moros from the Great Patriotic Pole received 5,150,092 votes with 51.20 per cent, while candidate Edmundo Gonzalez from the Unity Council received 4,445,978 votes with 44.2 per cent," Amoroso told journalists and observers.
For Maduro, the upcoming presidential term will be the third in a row; he has headed the Bolivarian Republic since 2013. The inauguration of the head of the executive power of Venezuela will take place on January 10, 2025, and his term of office will be six years.
-- BERNAMA-SPUTNIK
