Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro Becomes President For Third Time

Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced on July 29, that Nicolas Maduro has won the presidential election once again and will govern the country from 2025 to 2031. Notably, it will be Nicolas Maduro’s third time as Venezuela’s President.

About Nicolas Maduro

He was born 23 November 1962 is a Venezuelan politician and the president of Venezuela since 2013. Beginning his working life as a bus driver, Maduro rose to become a trade union leader before being elected to the National Assembly in 2000.

• He was appointed to a number of positions under President Hugo Chávez, serving as President of the National Assembly from 2005 to 2006, as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2013 and as the vice president from 2012 to 2013 under Chávez. After Chávez’s death was announced on 5 March 2013, Maduro assumed the presidency.

A strong and irreversible trend

The bulletin for Maduro’s victory was issued after 80 per cent of the polling stations had been counted, Xinhua news agency reported. Amoroso emphasised that it is “a strong and irreversible trend” and that voter turnout was 59 per cent of those eligible to vote. In total, Maduro received 5,150,092 valid votes, representing 51.2 per cent of the counted votes, according to CNE.

Opposition candidate

Opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, from the Unitary Platform coalition, received 4,445,978 votes, or 44.2 per cent of the votes. Maduro was running against nine presidential candidates. Of all the candidates, Edmundo Gonzalez, a retired diplomat, was seen as a significant challenge to Maduro. More than 21.6 million Venezuelans voted to choose President Nicolas Maduro from among the 10 presidential candidates.