EFE (via 14ymedio), Caracas, 29 July 2024 — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado urged the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) to “respect the popular sovereignty” expressed in Sunday’s presidential elections, insisting that the candidate of the largest anti-Chávez bloc, Edmundo González Urrutia, won, and not President Nicolás Maduro, as announced by the electoral body.
In the opinion of the former deputy, the announcement of the National Electoral Council (CNE), which gave the victory to Maduro with 51.2 % of the votes, “was impossible”, since, according to more than 40 % of the reports they have received, González Urrutia obtained 70 %, while the head of State – said Machado – obtained 30 %.
For his part, the presidential candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, claimed that “all the rules have been violated” during the process.
“Venezuelans and the whole world know what happened in today’s elec