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GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)
Sun May 20, 2018, 10:49 PM May 2018

TeleSur: Maduro winner of Venezuelan "presidential selection" by huge margin!

President and candidate Nicolas Maduro won the Sunday elections.

Nicolas Maduro won the Venezuelan presidential elections Sunday, gaining a second presidential term for six years with more than 5.8 million votes, the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced Sunday night.

With 92.6 percent of the votes counted, Maduro had 5.8 million votes, while his closest rival, former governor Henri Falcón getting 1.8 million votes, said CNE President Tibisay Lucena who added that in total, 8.6 million Venezuelans voted, out of an electoral registry of 20.5 million people.

"We are the force of history turned into popular victory," Maduro told his supporters after the CNE announcement. "Thank you to facing so many aggressions and lies, thank you for overcoming it, and for making me president of Venezuela for the next term."

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Nicolas-Maduro-Wins-Venezuelan-Presidential-Elections-20180520-0032.html

The PSUV was swept from power in 2015 by 2/3 super-majority, an now... 3 years later, with 18,000% inflation and the local currency losing 99.996% of its value in ONE YEAR (122,000,000% in 18 years), El Pueblo want him for another term?

Can't make this shit up.
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