Venezuelan prosecutors summon Edmundo González amid criminal investigation

Venezuela’s prosecutor’s office has summoned opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who is under criminal investigation after alleging fraud in the July 28 presidential election, for Monday. for alleged crimes of “usurpation of functions” and “forgery of public documents”among others, the organization reported this Saturday.

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The entity reported on its Instagram account that The appointment is “on August 26, 2024, at 10:00 a.m., in order to give an interview in relation to the facts being investigated by this office.” The ballot refers to a website where the opposition published copies of electoral records that it claims prove the defeat of President Nicolás Maduro, who was re-elected for a third six-year term.

The National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Maduro the winner with 52% of the votes, compared to 43% for his main rival González Urrutia, without presenting the details of the vote count, alleging a hack against the voting system.

The opposition, led by María Corina Machado denounced fraud and claims that her candidate won with 67% of the votesaccording to copies of the minutes that were published on the web. Chavismo claims that they are “forged.”

In response to an appeal filed by Maduro, the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) on Thursday upheld the results and accused González Urrutia of “contempt” for refusing to attend the hearings of the “expertise process” of electoral material.

The court announced that it would forward its ruling to Attorney General Tarek William Saab, in the face of “sanctions.”

The standard-bearer of the opposition He will have to make statements for alleged crimes of “usurpation of functions, forgery of public documents, instigation to disobedience of the law, computer crimes, criminal association and conspiracy”the text details.

The CNE, for its part, has not published results table by table, as required by law.

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