Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro said he asked the country's Supreme Court to conduct an audit of the presidential election.
Venezuela n President Nicolas Maduro blows a kiss next to his wife Cilia Flores, left, at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela , Wednesday, July 31, 2024, three days after his disputed reelection.
Maduro's main challenger, Edmundo González, and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, say they obtained more than two-thirds of the tally sheets that each electronic voting machine printed after polls closed. They said the release of the data on those tallies would prove Maduro lost the election. "The serious doubts that have arisen around the Venezuelan electoral process can lead its people to a deep violent polarization with serious consequences of permanent division," Petro said Wednesday in a post on
More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left the country since 2014, the largest exodus in Latin America's recent history. Many have settled in Colombia. The group was authorized earlier this year by Venezuela's electoral authorities to send experts to observe the election. It had 17 experts spread out in four cities on Sunday.
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