“We congratulate the Venezuelan people and President Nicolás Maduro for the electoral victory of this historic July 28th,” the dignitary wrote on X.

Arce considered this victory a great way to remember Commander Hugo Chávez on the 70th anniversary of his birth. “We have closely followed this democratic festival, and we welcome the fact that the will of the Venezuelan people has been respected at the polls,” the Bolivian head of state added.

Arce ratified the Bolivian purpose of strengthening “our ties of friendship, cooperation, and solidarity with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, within the context of the sovereign integration of our peoples and with the shared objective of moving towards a multipolar world.”

Shortly after midnight, the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela, Elvis Amoroso, reported that the candidate of the Great Patriotic Pole, Nicolás Maduro, was the winner, with 51.20 percent of the votes.

The elections were followed by the Venezuelan embassy in Bolivia, in a vigil led by Bolivian Deputy Foreign Minister Élmer Catarina, the heads of the embassies of Colombia, Cuba and Nicaragua, and dozens of social movement activists.

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