Nicolas Maduro has been re- elected as the President of Venezuela and has won a new six-year term on Sunday, on the other hand his main rivals disavowed the election alleging massive irregularities in a process critics decried as a farce propping up a dictatorship. Venezuela’s election board, run by Maduro loyalists, said he took 5.8 million votes, versus 1.8 million for his closest challenger Henri Falcon, a former governor who broke with an opposition boycott to stand. We have to have new elections in Venezuela.”

Maduro hailed his victory for another six-year term as a “historic record” in a speech to thousands of cheering supporters outside the official Miraflores Palace in Caracas. The electoral commission said that with 92 percent of the vote counted, Maduro - the anointed successor of the late leftist firebrand Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013 - had won a second six-year term, with 67.7 percent of the vote. This year four candidates ran for the presidency: incumbent President Nicolas Maduro, Reinaldo Quijada, who supported Maduro's predecessor Hugo Chavez but is dissatisfied with the current government, opposition leader Falcon and Evangelical pastor Javier Bertucci.
Incumbent President Nicolás Maduro wins the presidential election amidst allegations of massive irregularities by his main rivals.