Opposition La Causa R party leader Andrés Velázquez congratulated the Venezuelan people for "taking up the standard of freedom," and rejected the fact that government sources are leaking information that the constitutional reform proposed by President Hugo Chávez was approved in Sunday referendum.

Velázquez urged the foreign news media to stop echoing information that favors Chávez's government. "This report has been spread in the government's interest."

Opposition Primero Justicia party leader Julio Borges visited the headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE), claiming he saw "much agitation and desperation on the government side."

"They are disclosing wrong results and are visiting (foreign) media to force the results."