Washington confirms Maduro's loss in the elections, and the opposition demands that he hand over power | News

The United States has declared that opposition candidate in Venezuela's presidential election, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, has won “by millions of votes” over President Nicolas Maduro, who is under increasing international pressure to produce evidence of his declared victory in the election.

US Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs Brian Nichols declared in a speech to the Organization of American States that the results published by the opposition were “irrefutable.”

“The tally of these detailed results clearly shows an irrefutable result: Edmundo González won 67% of these votes, compared to 30% for Maduro,” he said.

The United States joined the European Union and regional countries in demanding that the Maduro regime publish detailed vote results.

The handover of power

In Venezuela, opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called on her supporters to take action against the Maduro regime to force him to retract his victory declaration and hand over power to her candidate.

“We offered the regime to accept its defeat democratically, but it chose the path of repression,” Machado wrote in a post on the X platform. “Now it is up to all of us to affirm the truth. Let’s act.”

The opposition leader's call came shortly after Maduro blamed Machado and Gonzalez for the post-election violence that left people dead, and said they should be put in prison.

According to the opposition, 16 people were killed in the protests that erupted following last Sunday's elections in the Latin American country.

In response to these calls, Maduro told reporters that he was “ready to present 100% of the records” of the vote.