2024-08-27 03:01:00
Venezuelan dissident Edmundo González Urrutia missed an appearance this Monday before the Prosecutor’s Office, which called again for Tuesday. amid a criminal investigation against him after he declared fraud in the elections July 28. González Urrutia declared his victory in the elections in which President Nicolás Maduro was declared for the third consecutive term with 52 percent of the votes.
Second calls
The Public Agency called González Urrutia to “appear on August 27 at 10 am to give an interview in relation to the events that this office is investigating, related to the publication and maintenance” of a web page , in which anti-Chavismo claims to have published “83.5 percent of electoral records” to support its claim of fraud in the July 28 presidential elections.
The largest opposition party, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), released those minutes, which the Executive called “false”, after the National Electoral Commission (CNE) announced Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the elections. The CNE decision was questioned by different countries, some of which supported that González Urrutia accepted by a wide margin.
That’s right The prosecutor’s office called the candidate for PUD president for “a commission accused of crimes of abuse of servicesforgery of public documents, disobedience of laws, computer crimes, criminal organization and conspiracy”, which is punishable by up to 16 years in prison.
On Sunday, through a video posted on social networks, Gonzalez Urrutia He said that the Prosecutor’s Office “intends to subject him to interrogation without specifying under what conditions he is expected to appear and the crimes for which he was not previously charged.” In his opinion, the attorney general, Tarek William Saab, “has repeatedly behaved like a political prosecutor,” since he “blame advance and thus push subpoena without guarantees of independence and due process“.
Maduro called him a “leader”, while Saab accused González and opposition leader María Corina Machado of violent actions in the post-election protests that left 27 dead, nearly 200 injured and more than 2,400 detained. Vice President of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Hairalso criticized González’s absence and promised justice. “No more excuses, anyone who attacks companies must take responsibilitythat companies will get their own,” Cabello warned.
“unfair”
CNE announces Maduro re-election for a third six-year term, with 52 percent of the votes, without publishing a table-by-table analysis, said their system had been hacked. Faced with the appeal presented by Maduro, the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) approved the results on August 22 and accused González of contempt for refusing to attend the hearings. Opponent argued “lack of security.”
One of the leaders of the CNE, Juan Carlos Delpino, who represents the opposition in the organization, denounced the “unfairness” in the July 28 election.. “Everything that happened before, during and after the presidential election indicates the importance of the lack of transparency and the truth of the announced results,” wrote Delpino, who said that he had not witnessed the totality of the reply.
According to Diosdado Cabello, the officer “abandoned his position” by fleeing to Colombia with his destination in the United States. “Delpino has been falling for him and taking some real money from the government and his poor as a chimbo agent. Give him money gringos, he used to do that, because now he is there and they give him a position of defense evidence, that is. the problem from now on,” Cabello said at a press conference, according to the newspaper Latest news.
Thinking about the next election
The Venezuelan government is preparing for legislative, local and regional elections scheduled in the country for 2025, Nicolás Maduro said this Monday, who said he agreed with the ban on participation in these and other elections to ” those who do not recognize the powers of the State.” “.
“We are already preparing, we are reengineering (…) preparing to see what the road will look like, who the candidates will be,” Maduro said during a virtual conference of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of our America ( ALBA). The head of state noted that, “within 12 months, at the latest,” the country will hold a “mega-election” of the National Assembly, 23 governors and 335 city governments.
“We have already been, There is someone who leaves the law, there is one who leaves and does not respect the power of the city.because I agree with what the President of the National Assembly (Jorge Rodríguez) said, those who do not know the powers of the State simply, by law, cannot participate in the electoral process, “said Maduro.
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