Venezuela’s opposition has claimed it has won the country’s presidential elections, despite the country’s Electoral Council (CNE) announcing incumbent Nicolás Maduro had been re-elected. The CNE said early on Monday Maduro had won a third term in office with about 51% of the vote, beating opposition candidate Edmundo González, who secured about 44%. However, opposition leader María Corina Machado claimed the opposition had secured 70% of the vote. “We won and the whole world knows that,” she told journalists. González was nominated as a replacement candidate for Machado, who has been banned fr…