adminVenezuelan President-elect Nicolas Maduro accuses opposition of orchestrating a coup as he bans protest against results of Sunday’s election.
Meanwhile, the country’s chief prosecutor has announced investigation into post-election violence which has resulted in seven deaths.
Both sides in the deadlock since the election have called on their supporters to attend rival rallies.
National Guard troops fired tear gas and plastic bullets on Monday to disperse students protesting against the official results in the presidential election as Nicolas Maduro, the acting president, was formally declared the winner.
The students hurled chunks of concrete and stones back at the troops on a highway in Caracas.
The demonstrators tried to reach the western part of the capital, where most of the government is headquartered. Henrique Capriles, the opposition candidate, had called on electoral authorities to suspend plans to officially proclaim Maduro as the winner of the election.
Repeating his call for a vote recount, Capriles said on Monday that Maduro would be an “illegitimate president” if he was proclaimed president.
Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo, reporting from Caracas on yesterday, said Capriles’ supporters were alleging “vote fraud”.
“The situation seems to be getting more tense by the minute,” she said.
Capriles urged Venezuelans to bang their kitchen pans later in the day if the proclamation went forward – a popular Latin American form of protest known as a cacerolazo – to “let the world know our outrage, our anger”. — Al Jazeera.
Online Reporter