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International observation of Venezuelan elections since 2018 has been highly contested: some external delegations reported in 2018, while multiple international monitors and democratic institutions la...
Venezuela remains under Nicolás Maduro’s control after a contested July 2024 vote and his third-term inauguration on January 10, 2025; independent tallies showed the opposition’s Edmundo González Urru...
A preponderance of reporting and independent observer statements documents systematic irregularities in Venezuela’s July 28, 2024 presidential vote—ranging from opaque tabulation practices to intimida...
The official Venezuelan electoral authority declared Nicolás Maduro the winner of the 28 July 2024 presidential election, but large-scale opposition-collected precinct tallies and multiple independent...
María Corina Machado won the opposition’s October 2023 primary by a large margin but was legally barred from standing in the 2024 presidential contest, so she did not appear on the ballot as the offic...
The U.S. government publicly rejected the Venezuelan electoral authority’s July 28, 2024 results, declared Maduro’s claim illegitimate, recognized opposition winner Edmundo González Urrutia, and impos...
Independent researchers, opposition poll-watchers and multiple observer organizations produced a mixed but potent body of evidence alleging manipulation in Venezuela’s 2024 vote count—ranging from tho...
María Corina Machado’s 2025 Nobel Peace Prize and her dedication of the award drew sharply divided reactions inside Venezuela and internationally, ranging from celebratory recognition by European inst...
The opposition-collected tally printouts (actas) published after Venezuela’s July 28, 2024 vote overwhelmingly indicated Edmundo González winning by a large margin—roughly two-thirds to one-third—whil...
The opposition’s scanned and tabulated tally sheets (actas) — collected from roughly 70–85% of polling stations and published in an open database — show challenger Edmundo González Urrutia winning by ...
The most visible Venezuela‑related Senate legislation from 2024–2026 falls into two tracks: bipartisan statutory packages aimed at supporting a democratic transition and a high‑stakes war powers resol...
The opposition published scanned precinct-level tally sheets (actas) and a consolidated dataset of results that it said covered more than 80% of polling stations, claiming those documents showed Edmun...
The official National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela declared Nicolás Maduro the winner of the July 28, 2024 presidential election, reporting roughly 51% of valid votes in his favor , but that d...
Western governments and many regional actors rejected the legitimacy of Venezuela’s 2018 presidential vote as flawed and illegitimate, actions that set the stage for a diplomatic split in 2019 when th...
If the vicepresident does not assume the presidency, Venezuelan constitutional text and recent practice point next to the president of the National Assembly as the immediate institutional successor , ...
A short legal answer: under Venezuela’s constitution the vice president would assume the presidency in the event of an “absolute absence” of the president, which points to Delcy Rodríguez as the immed...
María Corina Machado is reported in two of the provided analyses to have been awarded the , but the dataset also shows multiple, reliable mentions that she instead shared the —creating a clear conflic...