Nicolas MaduroVenezuela’s official leader, announced his traditional Christmas advance. Christmas starts on October 1st for everyone“Christmas has arrived with peace, happiness and security,” he said.
The announcement comes at a time of absolute crisisafter what happened during the presidential elections on July 28. In the last few hours, the The prosecution issued an arrest warrant against Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiawho was Maduro’s competitor during the elections.
Nicolás Maduro brought forward Christmas and gave his opinion on González Urrutia
Maduro made the announcement during his editorial on the television program “With Maduro +” broadcast last Monday night. “It’s September and it already smells like Christmas and that’s why This year, in honor of the fighting people, in gratitude to you, I am going to decree Christmas for October 1st.“Christmas has arrived with peace, happiness and security,” announced the Venezuelan official leader.
The measure was announced in the midst of a climate of high political tensions in the country. Moments before the announcement, the Venezuelan justice ordered the arrest of former presidential candidate González Urrutia, after he failed to appear to testify in three summonses.
For publishing electoral records on his website after the elections, the opposition leader is accused of usurpation of functions, forgery of public documents, incitement to disobedience of laws, conspiracy, sabotage to damage the system and association.
After the announcement about Christmas, the current president of Venezuela crossed to González Urrutia and assured that “No one in the country is above the laws and institutions“. Then, regarding the situation of electoral competitor, Maduro sentenced: “The Prosecutor’s Office summoned him three times and he did not appear, because it does not recognize the Public Prosecutor’s Office either“In no country is that possible, it is unacceptable.”
Gonzalez Urrutia He missed three citations of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the ruling party during the last week. On Thursday, when the third of the calls was made public, the Prosecutor’s Office warned that, if he did not attend again, he would be “a respective arrest warrant was issued” considering that it is “is in the presence of a risk of flight”.
Previously, the opposition leader had expressed that the Public Ministry “It seeks to submit to an interview without specifying the condition in which the person is expected to appear and pre-qualifying crimes not committed”. Along these lines, González Urrutia accused the Attorney General of behaving like “a political accuser“, which “condemns in advance” and carries out summons “without guarantees of independence and due process.”
For its part, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD)the opposition alliance, rejected the arrest warrant against its representative in the presidential elections. Through its X account, the bloc expressed a “resounding condemnation of the deepening of political persecution against” González Urrutia.
“Venezuelans and the world look with indignation at a regime that was not able to publish a single act within the legal time provided that supports the fraudulent result announced by the CNE, but that is capable of constructing in minutes an arrest warrant against the winner of the presidential election“, the statement concluded.
Javier Milei’s government rejected the arrest warrant against González Urrutia
He Javier Milei’s government On Monday, the Argentine government condemned the arrest warrant against the former presidential candidate of the Venezuelan opposition. The Argentine government described Maduro’s measures as “infamous actions of the dictatorship“.
He Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed his rejection “to the request for arrest issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Maduro dictatorship against the winner of the presidential elections of July 28, Edmundo González Urrutia.” In addition, the portfolio headed by Diana Mondino alerted the international community “about a wave of radicalization of the regime that seeks to criminalize Venezuelan democratic forces“.
On the other hand, the ministry also denounced that Venezuela is going through “a context of Massive human rights violations in the face of popular protests sparked by gross electoral fraud“. In this sense, the Argentine government pointed directly at the Maduro government, whom it accused of “to curtail the fight for democracy and freedom, chasing opposition leaders“who are victims of a ruthless political persecution, violating all their fundamental rights in a framework of state terrorism.”
Finally, the statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Argentine Republic “will not remain indifferent to the infamous actions of the Maduro dictatorship“and pledged to continue supporting the Venezuelan people”in their battle to regain democracy“.
Source: Ambito
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