In the press center set up at the CNE headquarters, Amoroso stated that 5,150,092 citizens voted for the current head of State.

At the same time, his closest rival was Edmundo Gonzalez, of the Democratic Unity Platform, who reached 44.2 percent with the vote of 4,445,978 voters.

The CNE president noted that these results correspond to 80 percent of the first bulletin’s data transmission, which marks “a conclusive and irreversible trend.”

He informed that they asked Attorney General Tarek William Saab to open an investigation into the terrorist actions committed against the electoral system, the voting centers, and the electoral officials.

He also called on Venezuelans to respect the Constitution, the Republic’s laws, the popular mandate expressed in the voting machines, and peace across the nation.

Amoroso announced that the results will be available on the CNE website in the next few hours, table by table, as it has always been done. They will be delivered on a CD to organizations with political purposes.

Thirty-seven political parties and movements from the country’s entire ideological spectrum participated in the elections, 24 represented the right wing and 13 the current government party, which were grouped in the Simon Bolivar Great Patriotic Pole.

More than 1,300 guests and observers globally accompanied the elections. Over 388,000 soldiers of the Strategic Operations Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (CEOFANB) and 180,000 from other security and civil protection agencies protected them.

This Sunday, the National Electoral Council set up 15,797 polling stations and 30,026 voting centers nationwide, where more than 21.3 million Venezuelans voted to elect one of the ten candidates.

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