What happened July 28 in Venezuela certainly looks like the mother of all stolen elections.
Updated: 2 minutes agoVenezuelan President Nicolas Maduro walks past an image of Venezuelan independence hero Simon Bolivar as he leaves a news conference at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, three days after his disputed reelection.
Venezuela’s government-controlled National Electoral Council stunned observers with the announcement in the early hours of Monday that Maduro had won the elections with 51.2% of the vote, against united opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia’s 44.2%. First, all credible pre-election polls showed opposition candidate Gonzalez Urrutia leading Maduro by more than 25 percentage points, a massive advantage by any standard. One poll by the ORC consulting firm gave Gonzalez Urrutia 60% of the vote, while Maduro had only 14.6%.
Long before election day, Maduro had also denied the right to vote to an estimated 4.5 million Venezuelans living abroad, who are mostly government opponents and represent more than 20% of the country’s total voters. In addition, he had banned Machado, the country’s most popular opposition leader, and several other top opposition figures from running, arrested opposition activists and censored the media.
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