CARACAS/MEXICO CITY – Venezuela's National Electoral Council confirmed on Friday that President Nicolas Maduro has won Sunday's elections with 51.95 percent of the vote.

With 96.87 percent of the ballots counted, Maduro received 6,408,844 votes, while his main opposition rival garnered 5,326,104 votes (43.18 percent), according to Elvis Amoroso, head of the National Electoral Council.

Amoroso also announced the vote percentages for other candidates: Luis Martinez received 1.24 percent of the vote, Antonio Ecarri, 0.94 percent; Benjamin Rausseo, 0.75 percent; Jose Brito, 0.68 percent; Javier Bertucci, 0.52 percent; Claudio Fermin, 0.33 percent; Enrique Marquez, 0.24 percent; and Daniel Ceballos, 0.16 percent.

He said a total of over 12,386,000 votes were counted, representing 59.97 percent of the eligible electorate, with a little more than 50,000 votes, or 0.41 percent, declared invalid.

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Amoroso blamed "massive cyberattacks" against the election technological infrastructure and the country's main telecommunications companies for the delayed transmission of results and the delayed disclosure process.

Despite the burning of electoral offices, voting centers, and what he described as "terrorist attacks”, Amoroso said the National Electoral Council managed to transmit the majority of the results.

He expressed gratitude to the Armed Forces, international observers, and officials, who he said had made the July 28 presidential elections possible.

‘US stance on Venezuela elections reckless’

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador meanwhile said on Friday that the US position on Venezuela's elections was "reckless" and renewed his call for the international community to avoid interventionism.

In his daily press conference, the Mexican president said statements like the one made by the United States on Thursday do not help resolve electoral disputes in Venezuela.

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"It is reckless," Lopez Obrador said when asked by a journalist whether the statement from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken could worsen the situation in the South American country.

On Thursday, Blinken claimed that opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia received the most votes in the July 28 elections.