“Everything requested by the highest court of the Republic is recorded,” said Amoroso at the hearing without giving further details. Both the CNE As the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) They are accused by the opposition of serving the Maduro government.
Last week, the National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed Ripe for a new presidential term by ensuring that he obtained 5.15 million votes (51.2%) after counting 80% of the votes. Opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia received 4.45 million votes (44.2%), with a turnout of 59%, according to official information.
Five days later, the CNE released a new report on the elections in which they awarded 6,408,844 (51.95%) of votes to Maduro and 5,326,104 (43.18%) to González Urrutia, with 96.87% of the votes counted.
The Venezuelan opposition, led by Gonzalez Urrutia and Maria Corina Machadodenounced fraud and ignored the figures of the CNE. Days later, they released their own results, recounted from the digitalization of witness records by state, municipality, parish, center and table, and assured that the candidate González Urrutia won with 67% about the president Ripe, who came in behind with only 30% of the votes.
“Edmundo won, Venezuela won,” Machado celebrated on social media, and shared the link to access the electoral data published on the party’s website. For the moment, the new count released by the opposition has 80% of the minutes digitized.
The results The data released by the opposition come in a context of great uncertainty and questions about the official numbers. While the CNE proclaimed to Ripe as winner of the elections, Publicly available data do not provide details of how the vote was carried out.
The international community demands that Venezuela publish the minutes of the elections
The claim to the Government is to distribute the voting records. At the end of the election day in each centre, the machines issue the voting records, with the results of each table, with a copy for the witnesses of the political parties and, once this delivery occurs, the results are transmitted to Caracas. This information is not currently publicly accessible.
In this frame, Argentina and eight other countries issued a joint statement to demand “a transparent vote count”. In the same vein, the president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvacalled together with his US counterpart, Joe Biden, for the “immediate” disclosure of electoral records in Venezuela.
However, days later, the American distanced himself from the Brazilian and recognized the opponent Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the winner of the presidential elections in Venezuela. The Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, He stated that the evidence is “overwhelming.”
Eight days after the elections, the CNE presented the minutes to the Supreme Court. However, the telegrams were not published on the web so that they could be verified by the population, a claim that has been spreading since Biden until Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
Venezuela’s Attorney General’s Office has opened a criminal investigation against opposition leaders
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office ordered to open a criminal investigation against Gonzalez Urrutia and Machado for their allegations of fraud in the re-election of President Nicolás Maduro. They are accused, among other charges, of usurpation of functions, instigation to disobedience of the laws, incitement to insurrection and conspiracy.
Earlier, in a letter that they published on social networks, Gonzalez Urrutia and Machado They made a Call to the “conscience” of military and police, Calling for a halt to the “repression” of protests opposition groups that have left at least eleven civilians dead according to human rights organizations.
There is more of 2,000 detainees, According to Maduro, who maintains that a process is underway Coup attempt”.
“He high command aligns itself with Maduro and his vile interests, while you are represented by those people who went out to vote (…), whose will was expressed on July 28 and which you know,” says the document by González Urrutia and Machado, addressing the State security forces.
Source: Ambito
