VENEZUELA – The president of Venezuela, Nicols Maduro, affirmed this Saturday that he will be sworn in as president of the Caribbean nation, for the period 2025-2031, on January 10, as established by the Constitution, after the National Electoral Council (CNE) ) would proclaim him as the winner of the July 28 elections, a result questioned inside and outside the country.
“On January 10, President Nicols Maduro Moros will be sworn in with the people in the streets, in their millions, as the Constitution mandates,” said the president in a demonstration celebrating his controversial re-election in the state of La Guaira (north).
Maduro denied that next January the standard-bearer of the majority opposition coalition – Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) -, Edmundo González Urrutia, was sworn in as the next president of Venezuela, despite claims of electoral “fraud” by anti-Chavismo.
“The Constitution is exhaustive and says that the president proclaimed by the corresponding organizations, in this case the Electoral Branch, and ratified by the expert audit of 100% of the (voting) minutes, made by the Electoral Chamber (of the Supreme Court) of Justice), will be sworn in on January 10,” he added.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed Maduro as the winner of the presidential elections held on July 28, despite the fact that, to date, it has not published the disaggregated results, as contemplated in the official schedule.
The ruling party also relies on a ruling from the Supreme Court – chaired by Chavista Caryslia Rodríguez – that validated the CNE announcement, while the opposition bases its claim on “83.5% of the minutes” collected by witnesses and polling station members, which They reflect – he insists – the triumph of González Urrutia, exiled in Spain since September 8.
Meanwhile, most of the international community has insisted that the CNE must publish the disaggregated results that confirm Maduro’s reelection.
