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Venezuelan government leaders have ratcheted up their attacks on their opponents as foreign countries decry a lack of transparency over Sunday’s disputed presidential election. Tuesday’s attacks came a day after President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner by a National Electoral Council that is loyal to him and the ruling party. They included calls for the arrests of opposition candidate Edmundo González, whose supporters say won by a landslide. The Carter Center said a technical mission it sent to Venezuela was unable to verify the results of the election and blamed officials for a “complete lack of transparency” in declaring Maduro the winner.

As thousands of people demonstrate across Venezuela, opposition candidate Edmundo González has announced that his campaign has the proof it needs to show he won the country’s disputed election whose victory electoral authorities handed to President Nicolás Maduro. González and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado told reporters they have obtained more than 70% of tally sheets from Sunday’s election, and they show González with more than double Maduro’s votes. Both called on people, some of whom protested in the hours after Maduro was declared winner, to remain calm and invited them to gather peacefully at 11 a.m. Tuesday to celebrate the results.