(29 Jul 2024)
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Caracas, Venezuela – 28 July 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro onstage
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan President: ++SOUNDBITE OVERLAID WITH SHOT3++
"A triumph of the national independency, the dignity of the Venezuelan people. The sanctions made weren’t enough, aggressions against weren’t enough, threats weren’t enough, not today and those will never be enough against the dignity of the Venezuelan people."
3. Crowd ++OVERLAID ON SHOT 2++
4. Candidate of the Unitary Democratic Platform Edmundo González entering briefing
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) María Corina Machado, opposition member:
"We want to tell all Venezuelans and the whole world that Venezuela has a new elected president and it is Edmundo González. We won. Everybody knows it, everybody knows it. I want you to know that this has been something so overwhelming, so big, that we have won in all sectors of the country, in all strata of the country, in all states of the country, in all.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner in Venezuela’s presidential election on 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.
"I am Nicolás Maduro Moro, re-elected president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Thanks for defending our democracy, our laws and our people," Maduro said while addressing a crowd in Caracas.
Shortly after midnight, the National Electoral Council said Maduro secured 51% of the vote, overcoming the main opposition candidate, Edmundo González, who garnered 44%.
But the electoral authority, which is controlled by Maduro loyalists, didn’t immediately release the tallies from each of the 30,000 polling booths nationwide, hampering the opposition’s ability to challenge the results after claiming it had data for only 30% of the ballot boxes.
"We want to tell all Venezuelans and the whole world that Venezuela has a new elected president and it is Edmundo González," opposition member María Corina Machado told the media after the announcement.
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