The elections in Venezuela

Maduro's victory confirmed - without the promised vote data

Venezuela's electoral authority has determined that President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected with 52 percent in Sunday's election when 97 percent of the votes have been counted, international media reports.

The government has promised to present complete voting data from the polling stations. Now the government-controlled electoral authority states that the voting system has been exposed to a "huge attack" and that it therefore cannot work, writes El Universo.

Maduro's victory has been questioned by both the opposition and the outside world. The United States and several Latin American countries believe that the opposition won, according to AFP.

Both the ruling party and the opposition have called for mass demonstrations on Saturday, according to CNN Español.

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Masked mob in attack on opposition office last night

Six masked men overpowered the security guards and broke into the headquarters of the Venezuelan opposition party on Friday night, international media reports.

After knocking over furnishings and spraying black paint on the walls, they took documents and equipment with them and disappeared. This is stated by party workers at X, where they have also posted pictures and videos of the vandalized office.

"We condemn the attacks and the lack of security that we are subjected to for political reasons," the party writes on X

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The opposition leader lives in hiding: Fearing for my life

María Corina Machado, opposition leader in Venezuela, has gone underground and fears for her own life. She writes that in a debate article in the Wall Street Journal after incumbent President Nicolás Maduro demanded that the country's opposition leader be put in prison.

"I may be captured as I write these words," Machado writes, continuing:

"We Venezuelans have done our duty. We have voted out Mr. Maduro. Now it is up to the international community to decide whether they can tolerate a government that is clearly illegitimate.”

Just hours after Machado's article was published, Maduro gave a televised speech on a state-owned channel. There he warned that two prisons that had been renovated would soon be ready for "thousands" of Venezuelans who protested the election results, writes Bloomberg.