The opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform, accused the government of Nicolás Maduro of considering “it a crime to have obtained 8 million votes.”
The Venezuelan opposition electoral coalition Democratic Unitary Platform reported this Tuesday a “judicial harassment” by the government of Nicolas Maduro against his candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiaand assured that the State “considers it a crime that he obtained 8 million votes.”
Following the elections held on July 28 in which the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Nicolás Maduro the winner, and the subsequent accusations of fraud by the opposition, Venezuelan Public Prosecutor’s Office initiated a criminal investigation against González Urrutia for the alleged crimes of “usurpation of functions” and “forging of public document”which could lead to a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
The prosecution had summoned him this Monday and again this Tuesday, but he did not appear considering that it was “a summons without guarantees of independence and due process,” According to information from AFP. In line with this, he called the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, a “political accuser.”
The Post of the Democratic Unitary Platform from Venezuela in X
Through its X account (formerly Twitter), the coalition stated: “The Democratic Unitary Platform of Venezuela denounces before the country and the world the judicial harassment to which our presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia is subjected, who overwhelmingly won the recent presidential election on July 28.”
“The repeated summons of the Public Ministry seeks to justify a mandate of leadership against our winning candidate, to accentuate his persecution. We express our solidarity and support for Edmundo González Urrutia, who is persecuted because The government considers it a crime that he obtained no less than 8 million votes by the will of the Venezuelan people,” he stressed
Source: Ambito
