{"id":2211,"date":"2013-04-16T00:41:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T00:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/maduro-confirmed-as-venezuela-president-elect\/"},"modified":"2013-04-16T00:41:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T00:41:16","slug":"maduro-confirmed-as-venezuela-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/maduro-confirmed-as-venezuela-president-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro confirmed as Venezuela president-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"
Venezuela’s electoral authorities on Monday confirmed acting President Nicolas Maduro as the winner of the weekend election to succeed Hugo Chavez, despite opposition demands for a recount.<\/p>\n
National Electoral Council president Tibisay Lucena handed the certified results to Maduro after proclaiming him “president-elect of Venezuela” following the tight election against opposition leader Henrique Capriles.<\/p>\n
Lucena gave final figures for the vote, and said Maduro won with 50.75 percent of the vote compared to 48.97 percent for Capriles — a difference of around 265,000 votes.<\/p>\n
As the council made the announcement, Capriles supporters banged pots and pans outside their windows in an eastern neighborhood of Caracas as a form of protest.<\/p>\n
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