[3] The junta then blocked the final results from being published and installed General Marcos Pérez Jiménez as provisional President, an outcome confirmed by the Constituent Assembly, which the opposition parties boycotted.
Venezuela had been run by a three-person junta from the 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état, under the leadership of Carlos Delgado Chalbaud.
[5] Pérez Jiménez ordered news coverage halted,[6] and no further figures were announced until he declared final results on 2 December.
[4] After the results were announced the ruling junta resigned and handed power to the military, who named Pérez Jiménez Provisional President.
[6] Ultimately, the Assembly drafted a new constitution, which was promulgated in April 1953 and vested the president with sweeping powers to act to protect national security, peace, and order.