Segundo a ministra, ESTES atos colocaram em perigo a normalidade e legitimidade do processo eleitoral e a própria democracia.

Opposition candidates and their supporters struggle to find places to gather without harassment from government activists and to get fuel to travel across the country.

Some of the problems go back a long time. However, it is President Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chávez who are the target of much of the current anger.

The opposition urges its supporters to witness the count at polling stations amid fears of vote fraud.

A US judge dismissed the case, one of several filed in the aftermath of Mr Musk's takeover of the site.

A loosening of foreign currency controls originally brought in by President Chávez in 2003 has eased those shortages as traders can sell goods in dollars but that means they have again become largely unaffordable to the poor or those without access to the US currency.

The National Election Council ordered an audit of the ballots in the 46 percent of precincts that had not already been automatically audited under Venezuelan election law, but Capriles refused to participate when the Council chose not to examine the signatures and fingerprints of voters on the registers as part of the audit. He vowed to challenge the results in court. In the meantime, Maduro was sworn in as president on April 19.

While sometimes at odds with the president's controversial measures, such as a proposed ban on immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, Musk defended his involvement with the new administration.

Since then he has dramatically reduced the size of its workforce including, controversially, cuts to teams responsible for keeping the platform safe; rebranded the company as X; and introduced new premium subscriptions so that the business does not rely on advertising alone for income.

They think this could mean more potential for the electronic figures to be tampered with and allege many of their observers were not allowed into the counts.

In the groups on Monday morning, people shared fliers for protests that ultimately did not happen by Monday afternoon.

The two firms are credited with upending their industries, even as they sometimes veered close to financial collapse.

In August 2013, Musk released a concept for a new form of transportation called vlogdolisboa the "Hyperloop," an invention that would foster commuting between major cities while severely cutting travel time.

He has also charged ahead with human brain chip trials at his firm Neuralink, played with turning X into a super app and tried to play a bigger role in the fast-growing world of artificial intelligence, despite having warned it could lead to humanity's extinction.