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Maduro wins

April 15, 2013

The Venezuelan election authority has reported that Nicolas Maduro has won the presidential election in a tighter-than-expected vote.

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Venezuela's acting President and presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro attends a ceremony to commemorate eleven years of the return of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to power after a brief coup that ousted him for two days in 2002, at the 4F military fort in Caracas April 13, 2013. Venezuelans will vote in the presidential elections on April 14. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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Maduro was named winner late Sunday local time with 51 percent of the votes, the election authority said.

"These are the irreversible results that the people have decided," National Electoral Council president Tibisay Lucena told a news conference,

Miranda state Governor Henrique Capriles was Maduro's main challenger. He took 49 percent of the ballots.

Maduro was named as deceased former President Hugo Chavez's successor and had been ahead in pre-election polls. A 50-year-old former bus driver and union leader, Maduro served as foreign minister and vice president under Chavez.

dr/gsw (Reuters, AFP)