Venezuela election: Maduro declared winner by government-controlled authority
Result with 80% of votes counted goes against opinion polls that suggested incumbent was facing defeat
Patricia Torres in Caracas and Sam Jones in Madrid
Monday 29 July 3024
Nicolás Maduro has been declared the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election by the government-controlled electoral authority – a result that appeared to dash opposition hopes of ending his authoritarian, socialist rule after 25 years, and which was immediately challenged by rivals and several governments in the region and beyond.