Who is the new president of Venezuela?

Nicolás Maduro has become Venezuela’s President for a third term after he won Sunday’s presidential election.

The electoral authority declared Nicolas Maduro the winner of a tightly contested election as Maduro achieved a majority over Edmundo Gonzalez of the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD).

Elvis Amoroso, the head of the National Electoral Council (CNE), said that with 80% of ballots counted, Maduro got 51% of the vote, whereas his main rival bagged 44% of votes.

However, the opposition dismissed the CNE’s announcement as fraudulent and promised to challenge the result, claiming that González won with 70% of the votes.

The opposition said vote scores showed González had a lead of 40 percentage points over the ruling party.

After 11 years in power, opposition parties had united behind González in an attempt to unseat Maduro.

Earlier, opinion polls had suggested González would roundly defeat Maduro.

The election results will affect more than 29.4 million people in South American countries.

Nearly 7.8 million people have fled Venezuela due to the economic and political crisis over the past 10 years. The country was plunged under the Maduro Administration with the problem.

Polls suggest that exodus could now increase. A poll suggests a third of the population would emigrate.

Many Venezuelans wanted change after 25 years.

There was widespread fear that the government could opt to deception to win the polls. As neither free nor fair, Maduro’s win in 2018 was also widely dismissed.

Meanwhile, US Vice President Kamala Harris extended her support for Venezuelans as the fallout.