Maduro’ s socialist party won governorships of 17 of the 23 states with the opposition Democratic Union Roundtable coalition taking only five, with one state still undecided, according to the results announced by the National Elections Council.
“We do not recognize any of the results at this time. We are facing a very serious moment for the country , ” warned the MUD’ s campaign director Gerardo Blyde , who demanded a full audit of the vote.
Maduro said his government had scored an “ emphatic victory” over its rivals by leaving the opposition with only five states, with his socialists still in line to take one further state where the results were still in dispute early Monday. Maduro and his allies held 20 outgoing governorships.
The results amounted to a crushing blow to the opposition which had characterized the elections as a referendum on Maduro , after months of deadly street protests earlier this year had failed to unseat him.
“We have serious suspicions, doubts , about the results that are going to be announced in a few minutes, ” Blyde told reporters at a hastily-arranged press conference even before the official results were announced.
International powers accuse Maduro of dismantling democracy by taking over state institutions in the wake of an economic collapse caused by a fall in the price of oil, its main source of revenue.
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