Authorities have declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner of last Sunday's election but have yet to produce voting tallies to prove he won.
's capital on Saturday, waving the national flag and singing the national anthem in support of an opposition candidate they believe won the presidential election by a landslide.Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is driven away on a motorbike at the end of a rally in Caracas, Venezuela on August 3.
Masked assailants ransacked the opposition's headquarters on Friday, taking documents and vandalising the space. González, who remains in hiding, was not seen at the event, and when the rally ended, Machado was given a non-descript shirt and whisked away on the back of a motorcycle. Later Saturday, thousands of government supporters gathered before Maduro's office at the Miraflores national palace.US man jailed for 145 years for killing four people, shooting ex-girlfriend
An Associated Press analysis Friday of vote tally sheets released by the opposition coalition indicates that Gonzalez won significantly more votes in the election than the government has claimed, casting serious doubt on the official declaration that Maduro won.Late Friday, Venezuela's high court, the Supreme Justice Tribunal, ordered the Maduro-controlled National Electoral Council to hand over the precinct vote count sheets in three days.
According to the calculations, the González received 6.89 million votes, nearly half a million more than the government says Maduro won.The tabulations also show Maduro received 3.13 million votes from the tally sheets released. Ruling party leader Diosdado Cabello takes part in a rally in defence of President Nicolas Maduro's re-election in Caracas, Venezuela on August 3.
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