Opinion polls suggest president Nicolás Maduro is facing possible defeat against little-known ex-diplomat Edmundo González UrrutiaVenezuela’s future was on a knife-edge on Sunday night after millions of voters headed to the polls to choose a new president and potentially end 25 years of socialist rule amid a historic economic and humanitarian meltdown.A quarter of a century after the paratrooper turned left-wing icon Hugo Chávez was democratically elected in 1998, opinion polls suggested the comandante’s strongman successor, Nicolás Maduro, was facing possible defeat after presiding over one of the worst peacetime economic collapses in modern history. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/29/venezuela-election-nicolas-maduro-edmundo-gonzalez-urrutia-results
Author : Patricia Torres in Caracas
Publish date : 2024-07-29 03:33:10
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Venezuela on a knife-edge as polls close in election which could end socialist rule
