The court, which is packed with Maduro loyalists and has almost never ruled against the government, said voting tallies showing he lost by a landslide were forged.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela ’s Supreme Court has backed President Nicolas Maduro ’s claims that he won last month’s presidential election and said voting tallies published online showing he lost by a landslide were forged.
Its decision, read Thursday in an event attended by senior officials and foreign diplomats, came in response a request by Maduro to review vote totals showing he had won by more than 1 million votes. The high court’s ruling certifying the results contradicts the findings of experts from the United Nations and the Carter Center who were invited to observe the election and which both determined the results announced by authorities lacked credibility. Specifically, the outside experts noted that authorities didn’t release a breakdown of results by each of the 30,000 voting booths nationwide, as they have in almost every previous election.
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