Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said he received an invitation from the National Assembly (AN, parliament) to take office as re-elected head of state.
"I received an invitation from the AN board to take the oath as President for the period 2025 - 2031, on January 10th (...) and I publicly confirm that I received the letter of invitation and that I will be formally present", he said on Tuesday on state television.
Venezuela, a country with a significant community of Portuguese and Portuguese descendants, held presidential elections on July 28, after which the National Electoral Council (CNE) attributed victory to Maduro with just over 51% of the votes, while the The opposition claimed that its candidate, former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, obtained almost 70% of the votes.
The Venezuelan opposition and several countries in the international community denounced electoral fraud and demanded that the voting records be presented for independent verification, which the CNE says is unfeasible due to a cyber attack it was allegedly the target of.
The election results were contested in the streets, with demonstrations repressed by security forces, with the record of more than two thousand arrests and more than two dozen fatalities.
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