The Chancellor Omar Paganini demanded “the release of all political prisoners” Venezuela, after the arrest of the opposition leader Williams Davila, arrested by the government of Nicolas Maduro after the questioned elections in that country.
“Given the imprisonment of Williams Dávila, we demand his release and that of all political prisoners,” he said on his X account. Minister of Foreign Affairs, by again showing himself critical after the arrest of the former governor of the state of Merida and former deputy.
Paganini indicated in the same way that the Maduro government continues “persecuting, imprisoning and kidnapping citizens who ask for democracy and demand respect for the popular will expressed at the polls.”
Dávila was arrested on Thursday night after participating in a demonstration in Caracas, where hundreds of people called for the release of those considered political prisoners, according to what the historic opposition leader of Venezuela reported in X, Maria Corina Machado.
Machado also demanded the “immediate release” of political prisoners after the elections of July 28, detaining several leaders linked to the largest opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD).
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On the other hand, the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela announced this Saturday that it will review the documents presented by political organizations and former candidates to make a decision at the end of the “validation” process of the vote, whose official result ratified Maduro’s victory, something that was questioned in that country, in Uruguay and in much of the world.
“The magistrates of this Electoral Chamber are engaged in the expert examination of all the material submitted – in physical and digital form – regarding the massive cyber attack of which the National Electoral Council (CNE)”, said the president of the court, the Chavista Caryslia Rodriguez, who He stressed that the decision taken will be “unappealable.”
The judge recalled that the PUD candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, He was the only one of the ten candidates who did not appear before the TSJ for this process -requested by Maduro-, because he believes that the instance will act in favor of Chavismo in the face of the accusation of electoral fraud.
Rodriguez assured that the investigation “will have highly qualified personnel and suitable”, that will work with the “highest technical standards”, although he did not give details in this regard, nor did he estimate the time this process will take.
Finally, he reiterated that the CNE – which has not yet published the disaggregated results of the election, contrary to what its own schedule established – went to the TSJ to “timely record all the requirements related to the electoral process.”
Source: Ambito
