Maduro proclaimed elected president; Capriles continues to protest for a recount of ballots

Tuesday, April 16th 2013 - 02:39 UTC

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Venezuela's election authority on Monday formally proclaimed Nicolas Maduro the winner of Sunday's presidential vote, despite insistence by the opposition that the ceremony be suspended until a complete recount of votes was carried out given the very tight result. Read full article

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Anglotino
Wow who knew that banging pots and pans was a coup!
Apr 16th, 2013 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Ozgood
It' quite possible that the election was stolen from Capriles with the help of the army, police and church as well as other vested interests. To the Chavistas I say ACADA PUERCO LLEGA SU SAN MARTIN

Counted counted weighed and found wanting. The writing is on the wall
Apr 16th, 2013 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
50.7% of the vote compared with 49.1%

I remember predicting on this site that this would be the declared result.
I was 0.1% out in my prediction.

My guess was there would be 1.5% between them and that the Chavistan would get in ... sufficient difference for the 'winner' to claim that there was no corruption in the election process.
Apr 16th, 2013 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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