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The Organization of American States (OAS) is headquartered in Washington, D.C. called an extraordinary meeting refer to the results of the elections in Venezuela, which are being questioned by the Venezuelan opposition and a number of countries in the region.

A meeting of the Permanent Council has been convened for Wednesday at the request of twelve Member States, including all Latin American governments, which Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered today to withdraw their diplomatic staff from Caracas.

Until now, The organization did not comment on the elections.amid the rejection by the international community and the Venezuelan opposition of the results of the National Electoral Council (CNE), which brought victory to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday.

The Venezuelan government has demanded Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic and Uruguay. that they would “immediately” withdraw their representatives from Venezuelan territory in retaliation for expressing concern about the course of the presidential elections.

The CNE gave the official victory to the current president, who has been in power since 2013. with 51.2% of the votes, the same result that was obtained on Sunday evening, when 80% of the minutes had been counted and more than two million votes remained to be counted.

Meanwhile, the standard-bearer of the majority opposition, Edmundo González Urrutia received 44.2% of the votes, According to the first and only public report from the CNE, which did not specify which candidates received the 2,394,268 unreported votes.