Sputnik
Venezuela’s Attorney General’s Office announced that it will summon former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González to testify as part of a criminal investigation into his responsibility for publishing election results posted on a website in parallel to those provided by the National Electoral Council (CNE).
“I would like to announce that in the next few hours, citizen Edmundo González will be summoned by this Public Prosecutor’s Office based on the ongoing investigation so that he can give a statement about his authorship, where he declares himself responsible for the page, which has usurped nothing more and nothing less than the quality and competence that only corresponds to the Venezuelan Electoral Power,” said the Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab.
In a broadcast on the state-run channel Venezolana de Televisión, the prosecutor said that González “will have” to go to the organization’s facilities to answer for his involvement in the events that occurred in the country after the presidential election on July 28.
“He must come to this hearing to speak in a consequential and successive manner about his responsibility before July 28, during July 28 and after July 28, for his contumacy, his disobedience to the legitimately constituted authorities,” he said.
The Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) certified last Thursday, through a ruling, the voting records audited by the Electoral Chamber of said instance, and validated the results published by the CNE that proclaim President Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the contest.
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