# CNE announces Maduro’s narrow win over Capriles after Chávez’s death

Date: 2013

## The fact

On 14 April 2013 Venezuela’s National Electoral Council announced that [Nicolás Maduro](/people/nicolas-maduro) had won the presidential election with 50.61 percent against [Henrique Capriles](/people/henrique-capriles)’s 49.12 percent, days after [Hugo Chávez](/people/hugo-chavez)’s death. Capriles demanded a full audit.

## Context

He was the acting president and PSUV candidate. Neighbouring 19 April oath is a child. He did not sit as every precinct printer.

The 2018 contest is a later child. The 2024 CNE night is a different instrument.

The President of Venezuela heads the national executive, commands FANB as commander-in-chief, appoints the cabinet, and can request enabling laws. He does not write an OFAC designation, an ICC Pre-Trial Chamber decision, or a Colombian migration statute. A CNE announcement is not an opposition acta and is not a Carter Center finding. Those three statuses stay on separate rows. An ICC investigation is not a conviction. An IMF figure is labelled as an estimate where BCV stopped publishing. Sanctions after 2017 and 2019 are an external causal factor; they do not erase the pre-2017 PDVSA-and-policy collapse.

## Evidence and sources

CNE carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [democratic resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience): a completed narrow CNE succession after a president’s death, remaining audit fights as neighbours.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 14 April 2013 CNE announcement of a Maduro win, independently reported.

Not established: that every later year was thereby a unique democratic coefficient, or a unique later CPI from that Sunday.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

He was the candidate and acting president. Capriles and later audits share the challenge file.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies CNE announces Maduro’s narrow win over Capriles after Chávez’s death, not a later speech about CNE announces Maduro’s narrow win over Capriles after Chávez’s death.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. CNE announces Maduro’s narrow win over Capriles after Chávez’s death on 2013-04-14 is not a licence to treat every later CNE communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average CNE announces Maduro’s narrow win over Capriles after Chávez’s death into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to CNE announced. He was the candidate and acting president. Capriles and later audits share the challenge file. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Nicolás Maduro: https://factrail.ai/people/nicolas-maduro

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience
- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-election-idUSBRE93D01N20130415
- https://www.cne.gob.ve/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-cne-2013