Machado holds huge lead in Venezuela presidential primary vote
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Industrial engineer and former lawmaker Maria Corina Machado reacts to the vote count, after Venezuelans voted in a primary to choose a unity opposition candidate to face Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in his probable re-election bid in 2024, in Caracas, Venezuela October 23, 2023. REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria
CARACAS - Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado held an overwhelming lead in the vote count on Monday evening for the South American country's opposition presidential primary with 92.56% support, according to opposition officials.
Nearly 65% of ballot boxes have been counted, they added.
Machado declared victory overnight after an initial count of about a fourth of the ballots cast in the Sunday contest showed she had won by a similar margin. REUTERS
