Grapevine

More protests loom in Venezuela as opposition disputes election results

More protests are expected in Venezuela as opposition leaders are disputing the results of a weekend election that saw President Nicolas Maduro secure another term in power.

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called for families to turn out on Tuesday for “popular assemblies” across the South American nation.

Machado told reporters a day earlier that a review of available voting records from Sunday’s presidential contest showed that opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez had achieved a “categorical and mathematically irreversible” victory over Maduro.

“There are millions of citizens in Venezuela … who want to see that their vote counts,” she also posted on social media.

But Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) on Monday formally confirmed that Maduro had been re-elected by a majority of Venezuelans to another six-year term as president “for the period 2025-2031”.