Tarek William Saab, Venezuela’s attorney general, said this Wednesday (11) in an interview with CNN that the Venezuelan opposition falsified the minutes found on the website RESULTADOSCONVZLA.COM and that it did not hand over the minutes in its possession to the alleged expert analysis carried out by the Supreme Court of Justice to validate the electoral results.
“There are records of people who did not vote, records of deceased people voting, records of people who voted for one candidate and appear as another. The most unusual thing is that many people went to the QR code and some dolls or the address of a restaurant appeared,” he said, without offering any evidence, in an interview with Fernando del Rincón. from CNN .
Tarek added that the summons of opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia responded to the investigation into the publication of the RESULTADOSCONVZLA.COM page. Previously, the attorney general had said that the page “usurped the quality and competence that only corresponds to the Venezuelan Electoral Power.”
“(It) is an apocryphal and false page. And he (González Urrutia) publishes it, disseminates it on his networks,” he stated.
Pressed by Fernando del Rincón about why the government and electoral authorities did not show the minutes, the attorney general assured that the STJ carried out a three-day expert assessment in which the ruling party “handed over its minutes”, but the opposition did not.
“The government party handed over its minutes, I saw them when they handed them over. The Unitary Democratic Platform (the party that González was a candidate for) said they did not have minutes. They did not keep minutes, they said that the minutes were made by Súmate, a private company. (…) In Venezuela, the electoral power is not Súmate or the website: it is the Judiciary that agreed with the electoral authority and the Electoral Power, which produced results that proclaimed Nicolás Maduro as president,” he added.
On August 22, the STJ, controlled by Chavismo, validated the announcement by the National Electoral Council that gave victory to President Nicolás Maduro in the presidential elections of July 28, without detailing the results of its investigation.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) has not published the detailed results by electoral college and polling station that support the announcement of President Nicolás Maduro’s victory.
The departure of Edmundo González Urrutia
The prosecutor made statements about the actions of the opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, after the announcement of the election results. He claimed to have first-hand knowledge of González Urrutia’s decision to leave Venezuela and assured that he knew from the first moment that he was a “losing candidate”.
“A few hours after announcing that they did not recognize the results presented by the CNE, Mr. Edmundo González Urrutia went to the Dutch Embassy,” he said.
The Venezuelan Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) has issued three subpoenas for opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia to appear for a hearing in relation to the investigation into the publication of the RESULTADOSCONVZLA.COM page, which the opposition claims contained copies of the voting center minutes and which, according to Venezuelan Attorney General William Tarek Saab, “usurped the quality and competence that only corresponds to the Venezuelan Electoral Power.”
“He sent his lawyer, his legal representative, to speak directly to me. He gave me a communication (…) in which he explained the reasons why he had not appeared in three previous summonses to speak about an ongoing investigation,” said Saab.
He added that “he signed in his own handwriting, with his identity card and did not declare himself president-elect of anything because he knew he had lost.”
González’s departure from Venezuela comes five days after a court ordered his arrest. González has repeatedly denied the charges against him.
As I told CNN the opposition candidate’s lawyer, Edmundo González’s decision to go to Spain was due to “urgent decisions” to preserve his life and freedom.
Human rights
After being presented with a long list of organizations that claim that human rights are not respected in Venezuela, the prosecutor recognized himself as a human rights leader and stated that these organizations “have double standards.”
According to figures from the Venezuelan government itself, at least 2,400 people have been detained, including several minors, and non-governmental organizations have reported the deaths of 24 people in the context of the political crisis the country is experiencing following the presidential elections on July 28.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and its Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression (RELE) condemned what they described as “practices of institutional violence” that have occurred in Venezuela.
According to Saab, the deaths that occurred in this context have a direct perpetrator: “The far right killed them.” He added that “there is not a single complaint that links any of the murdered to any security agency of the Venezuelan state, not to the PNB, not to Sebin, not to the police.”
“The vast majority of those detained did not exercise their right to vote, are not registered with the CNE and were captured because we have mass statements.”
The attorney general further said that these people were paid to go out and burn public property.
This content was originally published in Venezuelan Attorney General Says Opposition Falsified Election Records on CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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