Summary
- Venezuela’s opposition leader, Marîa Corina Machado, is calling for the world to recognize candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as president-elect after a disputed election in the country.
- President Nicolás Maduro claimed victory in the July 28 vote, but international communities are hesitant to accept this without detailed polling results being published.
- The opposition claims that González Urrutia won 67 percent of the vote based on their own voting records.
- The UN Security Council discussed the situation, and diplomatic relations were severed with countries recognizing González Urrutia as Venezuela’s president-elect.