Maduro wins as rivals call for new Venezuela elections

President Nicolas Maduro was unsurprisingly declared winner of Venezuela's election Sunday in a poll rejected as invalid by his rivals, who immediately called for fresh elections to be held later this year. "We do not recognize this electoral process as valid, as true," his main rival Henri Falcon told a news conference, even before the result was announced. 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.

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