Venezuela Marks One Month Since Disputed Election

Supporters of Venezuela's ruling party held a rally to mark one-month since July's disputed presidential election, as arrests of opposition figures continued.

Venezuela's electoral council and its top court have proclaimed President Nicolas Maduro, in power since 2013, as the winner of the July 28 election, but complete voting tallies have yet to be published. Venezuela's opposition has published its own tallies showing a landslide win for its candidate Edmundo Gonzalez.

After the march, Maduro took the stage outside the Miraflores Government Place to call former opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez a "coward" and called for the world "to respect the sovereignty and the internal life of Venezuela."

"This man has the guts to have disregarded the Electoral Power, to have announced that he was not going to recognise the results, to have lied on a website where 83% of the published documents are false, they are forged, to have disregarded the Supreme Court and now the prosecutor's office has summoned him twice and twice he has failed to comply with the prosecutor's summonings," Maduro said.

"And with the constitutional, institutional, Bolivarian morale that we have, we demand the world, not to stick their noses in the internal affairs of Venezuela and to respect the sovereignty and the internal life of Venezuela, Venezuela is respected," he added.

The electoral council says it has not yet posted detailed tallies of what it says is Maduro's victory, with just over half of votes, because a cyberattack affected its system.

The disagreement has sparked international calls for the release of full tallies, deadly protests, and moves by authorities to arrest opposition figures and journalists.

More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have left in recent years and others have said that they would seek to go too if Maduro’s socialists continued in power.