The 2013 Venezuelan political crisis refers to the events occurred after the presidential elections of the same year, mostly protests in response of the electoral result in which Nicolás Maduro the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) is elected as President of Venezuela.
Presidential elections
After the presidential elections on 14 April 2013, opposition leader Capriles rejected the bulletin issued by the
National Electoral Electoral (CNE) and ask for a recount of the 100% of the votes, because his campaign command reported at least 3,500 irregularities during the electoral process, petition that was joined by CNE rector Vicente Díaz and supported by the governments of
Spain
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,
France
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, the
United States
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,
Paraguay
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, and the Secretary General of the
Organization of American States,
José Miguel Insulza
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. At the start, Maduro accepted the audit proposed by the opposition.
Henrique Capriles presented his request formally on 17 April 2013, with all the corresponding complainte and the petition of the total verification of the acts; the CNE held a meeting for hours the same day until it accepted the verification "in second phase", the 46% of the ballot boxes not randomly audited at first. However, this audit was not supported by Capriles, who argued that itt«should have been carried out along with a review of the voting notebooks», reason why the process was challenged before the
Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ).
See also
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2014 Venezuelan protests
In 2014, a series of protests, political demonstrations, and civil insurrection began in Venezuela due to the country's high levels of urban violence, inflation, and chronic shortages of basic goods attributed to economic policies such as strict ...
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2018 Venezuela election protests
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2016 Venezuela protests
References
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