However, González Urrutia has refused to go to the TSJ, saying the procedure does not correspond to any process contemplated in Venezuelan law and constitutes a “violation of due process”.
The governor of the Venezuelan state of Zulia (west) is anti-Chavista Manuel Rosalesand opposition leaders Simón Calzadilla and José Luis Cartaya They went to the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) on Wednesday after being summoned as part of a process conducted by the court to “certify” the official results of the presidential election.
On Tuesday, the TSJ called the 10 Former Presidential Candidates who participated in the July 28 elections, as well as representatives of the political parties, to promote the process of “certification” of the official results of the elections, which gave victory to Nicolás Maduro, which has been questioned outside and inside the country.
Gonzalez Urrutia On Wednesday, he refused to go to the TSJ, believing the procedure does not correspond to any process contemplated by Venezuelan law and represents a “violation of due process.”
The former ambassador pointed out that the Electoral Chamber cannot “take over” constitutional functions of the National Electoral Council (CNE) and “certify” results that have not yet been “produced in accordance with the Constitution and the law”, with participants having access to the original minutes that serve as a basis for a totalization and proclamation and with the necessary audits”.
For his part, Rosales and Calzadilla have demanded at the TSJ that the CNE publish the voting minutes of the presidential elections on July 28. “The CNE has the authority and must publish the final minutes of what was the electoral process of July 28,” Rosales said.
Regarding González Urrutia’s absence from the Supreme Court, Rosales has defended that the former ambassador took advantage of “the letter route” to appeal to the court.
Meanwhile, Calzadilla has indicated that the electoral body must provide all political parties and candidates with results broken down by table, “as has always been done, something that until now,” he said, “has not happened.”
Calzadilla said he did not understand what President Nicolás Maduro’s request to the Supreme Court was, because, he explained, any candidate can contest all the results once they are published by the CNE, but not before.
“The parties have nothing to compare the copies of the minutes with (…) we are completely defenseless, we do not know the results and we do not even know what we are doing in this (electoral) chamber,” he added.
Source: EITB
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