Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado He said on Monday, after the Prosecutor’s Office asked a court to issue an arrest warrant for the standard-bearer of the largest anti-Chavez coalition, Edmundo González Urrutiawho with their threats “only achieve” the cohesion of the alliance and an increase in the support they receive inside and outside the country.
«By threatening the president-elect, they only succeed in uniting us more and increasing the support of Venezuelans and the world for Edmundo González. Serenity, courage and firmness»said the liberal in X, who has denounced fraud in the results of the elections of July 28, in which Nicolás Maduro was proclaimed the winner for a third six-year term.
With the alleged arrest warrant, he said, the government has “lost all sense of reality.”
The opposition member made this statement after the Prosecutor’s Office issued its request to charge González Urrutia with alleged crimes of “usurpation of functions” and “forgery of public documents” in relation to the electoral records of the presidential elections of July 28.
The request is made after the Prosecutor’s Office summoned González Urrutia on three occasions, and the opponent decided not to appear, as he did not know in what capacity he should appear and did not acknowledge the crimes that the Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) attributes to him.
Conspiracy to commit a crime
According to a document dated today from the public prosecutor’s office, the anti-Chavez activist is also accused of “instigating disobedience of laws,” “conspiracy,” “sabotage to damage systems and association (to commit crimes).”
The investigation into González Urrutia is related to the publication of a website on which the main opposition coalition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – claims to have uploaded “83.5% of the electoral records” collected by witnesses and polling station members on election night, to support its claim of fraud in the presidential elections.
The PUD released these minutes, which the Executive calls “false,” after the National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Maduro the winner of the elections, which has been questioned by numerous countries, some of which support that González Urrutia won by a wide margin. EFE
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