That the court “will dedicate itself to resolving this attack on the electoral process, this attempted coup d’état – using the electoral process – and clarifying everything that needs to be clarified about these attacks, about this process,” the Venezuelan president said.
The President of Venezuela, Nicholas Madurofiled a request for protection this Wednesday with the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court (TSJ), asking for clarification of “everything that needs to be clarified” about Sunday’s elections, whose official results certified his victory despite complaints of fraud on the part of the main opposition force.
That the court “will dedicate itself to resolving this attack on the electoral process, this attempted coup d’état – using the electoral process – and clarifying everything that needs to be clarified about these attacks, about this process,” Maduro said as he left the TSJ.
The agent then makes this request two days of protests in several regions of the country against his announced re-election, as the main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), assures that its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, won the election by a large margin and has created a web page with the election data that – they claim – proves their claim.
However, according to Maduro, it is the “most criminal attempt at abuse of power” “seen to date” and is “a global plot against Venezuela” aimed at removing him from the presidency, which arrived in 2013 after the death of his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.
“I am prepared to be summoned and questioned (…) examined by the Electoral Chamber as the winning presidential candidate in Sunday’s elections and as head of state,” he stressed.
He Carter Centerwho observed the elections, said on Tuesday that the process “did not adapt” to international parameters and standards of electoral integrity, and therefore “it cannot be considered a democratic election”.
More than 1000 prisoners
On the other hand, the Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saabhas increased the number of detainees during the protests to more than 1,000. Saab explained at a press conference that if it is proven that the 1,062 detainees did not participate in violent acts “they will be released.” “If they are proven guilty, they will be charged,” the newspaper reported. The universal.
Moreover, as reported by the human rights NGO Foro Penal, the protests against Maduro’s victory have already resulted in at least eleven diedtwo of whom are minors. The opposition leader Maria Corina Machado He has denounced arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances and even murders.
Source: EITB
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