Nicolás Maduro Moros won a second term at the helm of Venezuela after winning the presidential election this Sunday with more than 5,823,728 million votes, representing 67.7 percent of the vote.
With a participation percentage of 48 percent, the candidate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) will remain for another six years at the Miraflores Palace.
Opposition candidate Henri Falcón was second in the presidential race, with more than 1.8 million ballots (21.1 percent). Before knowing the result, the candidate of Alliance Progresista (AP) ignored the results.
The evangelical pastor Javier Bertucci achieved just over 900,000 votes and, minutes before the first official bulletin of the Electoral Power, he assured that he would recognize the results if the advantage with respect to the pro-government candidate was broad enough.
In the vicinity of the Government Palace, supporters of President Maduro went out to celebrate the electoral triumph.
A total of 20,526,978 Venezuelans in the country and 107,284 residing abroad are authorized to exercise their right to vote in the 14,638 polling stations and 34,143 polling stations distributed throughout the country.
Election day began at 06:00 local time (10:00 GMT) and ended at 6:00 pm (22:00 GMT). The elections had an International Accompaniment Plan, with 150 participants from around the world.
Among the companions were politicians, academics, parliamentarians, intellectuals, journalists and personalities from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, North America and Asia.
Profile and proposals of Nicolas Maduro
Nicolas Maduro was president in charge of Venezuela in March 2013, after the physical departure of the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chávez. In April of that year, he won the elections with 50.61 percent of the votes, for the period 2013-2019.
Previously, he held the positions of Deputy of the National Constituent Assembly (1999), Deputy of the National Assembly (2000 - 2006), President of the National Assembly (2005), Chancellor (2006-2012) and Vice President of Venezuela (2013)
His electoral proposal is contained in the Plan de la Patria 2019 - 2025, which contains 30,000 ideas from the popular bases. These are some fundamental points:
• Consolidate public and free education and achieve 100 percent of schooling.
• Expand the public health system, free and of quality. Improve the family, primary and community health system.
• Achieve delivery of the 5 million homes of the Great Housing Mission Venezuela.
• Strengthen the Homeland Card to protect 16.5 million Venezuelans, in a comprehensive manner, and the Bond System for economic aid to 5 million homes or more.
• Consolidate the CLAP (Local Supply and Production Committees), the Sovereign Field markets, the fair price systems and the Venezuelan currency exchange.
• Promote El Petro and keep the great economic revolution under way to overcome the international siege.
(With information from RT in Spanish and Telesur)
