Socialist President Nicolas Maduro has won another six years in power in crisis-hit Venezuela, in an election that the political opposition and foreign powers have denounced as a sham.

Many eligible voters boycotted Sunday’s polling, bringing turnout to a lacklustre 46 percent, according to the country’s election board. Participation was far below the 80 percent rate in 2013, when Maduro rose to power after the death of veteran leader Hugo Chavez.

The United States said it would not recognise the vote’s results, while the European Union and some nations in Latin America warned before the vote that the election was shaping up to be unfair.

“There has been a fierce campaign by the government of Donald Trump. In the United States there has been a fierce pressure to try to besmirch the Venezuelan elections — and they couldn’t,” Maduro said earlier on Sunday.

The main opposition coalition boycotted the election, but Maduro was not without challengers.

Maduro’s chief rival for the presidency was Henri Falcon, a former state governor and one-time loyalist of the ruling party who broke ranks in 2010. About 5.8 million votes went to Maduro and Falcon came in second with 1.8 million votes, according to the electoral board, with 92.6 percent of the votes tallied.

On Sunday, Falcon said he would not recognise the results and cited hundreds of complaints of election violations. Election officials said they would address the claims.

Maduro has continued the huge social welfare programs and price control policies of former leader Hugo Chavez, who steered the country toward socialism. Many Venezuelans saw Chavez as the champion of the poor. Before he died, Chavez picked Maduro as his successor, which helped put Maduro over the top in the 2013 presidential election.

Under the two leaders’ rule, the oil-dependent country has endured political turmoil and economic misery, including food and medicine shortages, and hyperinflation.

Venezuela holds the world’s largest supply of crude oil — which once seemed like an endless gusher of cash for the government. But plummeting oil prices crashed the economy in 2016, and it has since completely collapsed. The country now finds itself in the middle of a financial crisis, and the International Monetary Fund expects inflation in Venezuela to reach 13,000 percent in 2018.

Because of the deteriorating situation, an estimated 1.6 million people fled the country between 2015 and 2017, according to the International Organization for Migration.