In a development that has a strangely familiar ring to it, Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González claims to have proof that the South American nation’s recent election was not on the up-and-up and that González, not the socialist strongman Nicolás Maduro, actually won the election.
As thousands of people demonstrated across Venezuela, opposition candidate Edmundo González announced Monday that his campaign has the proof it needs to show he won the country’s disputed election in which electoral authorities named President Nicolás Maduro the victor.
González and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado told reporters they have obtained more than 70% of tally sheets from Sunday’s election, and they show González with more than double Maduro’s votes. Both called on people, some of whom protested in the hours after Maduro was declared winner, to remain calm and…
