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Tibisay Lucena Wikipedia, Bio, Age, Wiki, Height, Net Worth, Partner – In a fiercely contested election, Venezuelans chose Nicolas Maduro, Hugo Chavez’s political heir, as their new president on Sunday. The leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela defeated Henrique Capriles Radonski, the joint candidate of various opposition groups, by less than 2% of the vote in the polls, which began at 6 am and ended more than 12 hours later.
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The margin of victory for Maduro against the opposition candidate was only approximately 300,000. In a closer-than-expected election, Capriles won 49.07% of the votes while Maduro received 50.66% of the votes. Tibisay Lucena, president of the National election commission, described the outcome as “irreversible” upon announcing the outcome.
Millions of Nicolas Maduro supporters flocked to the streets of Caracas as soon as the election results were made public. Maduro pledged in his victory address to continue Chavez’s initiatives. However, the other candidate stated that he would not accept the election results without a recount. In less than a year, this was Capriles’ second straight loss in a presidential election.
He ran against Chavez in October 2012 but lost by more than 10% of the vote. When compared to the previous election, which saw 80% of the 19 million voters cast their ballots, this one saw a little lower voting percentage of 78.71%.
Capriles had before claimed that there was a scheme to attempt to rig the outcome of the country’s presidential election in South America. In a tweet, he stated, “We inform the nation and the globe of the plan to try and change the will expressed by the people.
The majority of poor and working-class Venezuelans appear to have made it clear that they do not want the oil-rich nation to revert to its pre-Chavez past by rejecting Capriles, a pro-US governor of Miranda state who pledged to make Venezuela into a more business-friendly economy.
Chavismo will likely be the nation’s guiding philosophy through 2019 as Maduro prepares to take up residence in the presidential palace for a six-year term, however, the narrow margin of victory may now require Maduro to pay more attention to the problems of middle-class Venezuelans.
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But Maduro warned on Sunday that his administration would present “new direct evidence” of US meddling in his nation, giving no doubt that ties between Venezuela and the US are not about to get any better anytime soon. He added after casting his vote on Sunday, “There are always problems with the United States because they are always plotting.”
“We will present new direct evidence of US embassy officials’ intervention in the domestic situation of Venezuela tomorrow (Monday),” he continued. An organisation of Colombian “insurrectionists seeking to destabilise the country” were apprehended by the Venezuelan government on Friday. The sole pro-US government in South America, where left-wing administrations predominate, is found in Colombia.
Prior to travelling to Cuba for urgent cancer treatment from which he never fully recovered, Hugo Chávez had nominated Maduro, 50, a former bus driver and union leader who is a well-known devotee of Sathya Sai Baba of Puttaparathi, as his successor in December.
This election, which was brought on by Chavez’s passing on March 5, was not just about choosing a new president; both parties viewed it as a referendum on Chavismo, a combination of aggressive domestic social welfare policies and outward-looking plans aimed at forging an anti-US movement in the Latin American region.
While Maduro pledged to expand Chavez’s “21st Century Socialism” throughout the campaign, Capriles, the son of a Jewish builder, promoted a model a la Brazil that combines pro-business policies with significant state investment on the poor. But last week, Capriles received a significant shock when former Brazilian President Lula, who is credited with making his nation into one of the hottest developing economies in the world, released a television ad endorsing Maduro and disparaging Capriles and his “right-wing politics.”
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