# Maduro wins a presidential election largely boycotted by the opposition; EU and US do not treat it as a completed democratic mandate

Date: 2018

## The fact

On 20 May 2018 CNE announced that [Maduro](/people/nicolas-maduro) had won a presidential election brought forward under ANC weather. Major opposition parties boycotted. The European Union and the United States did not treat the result as a completed democratic mandate.

## Context

ANC 2017 sat as parent. Neighbouring 2019 Guaidó crisis is a child. He did not sit as every CNE machine.

ANC 2017 is the parent. Guaidó January 2019 is a child recognition crisis.

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 boycotted presidential contest that several partners declined to treat as a democratic mandate.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 20 May 2018 CNE result and contemporaneous EU/US non-recognition, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later oil-barrel coefficient from that Sunday, or that every later recognition map was thereby fixed forever.

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 ran as incumbent under ANC weather. Opposition parties boycotted. Partner governments wrote their own recognition notes.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Maduro wins a presidential election largely boycotted by the opposition; EU and US do not treat it as a completed democratic mandate, not a later speech about Maduro wins a presidential election largely boycotted by the opposition; EU and US do not treat it as a completed democratic mandate.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Maduro wins a presidential election largely boycotted by the opposition; EU and US do not treat it as a completed democratic mandate on 2018-05-20 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 Maduro wins a presidential election largely boycotted by the opposition; EU and US do not treat it as a completed democratic mandate into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to CNE announced. He ran as incumbent under ANC weather. Opposition parties boycotted. Partner governments wrote their own recognition notes. 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-idUSKCN1IL0J3
- https://www.cne.gob.ve/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-election-2018