Former candidate Javier Bertucci attends hearing at Venezuelan Supreme Court

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Former candidate Javier Bertucci goes to the Venezuelan Supreme Court for the hearing on the July 28 elections. teleSUR

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00:00Welcome to Tell Us Your English.

00:09We go live to Caracas once again to the Supreme Court headquarters as yet another hearing

00:15begins in this process that the Supreme Court is carrying along as the top court has summoned

00:24all former presidential candidates and also political parties to come before the top court

00:33and also present all their information and all their evidence regarding the election

00:41process that had its key day on July 28th.

00:48We are looking at one more of the political representatives as they come together before

00:55the top court as they await for the top court authorities, in this case, Carlicia Rodriguez,

01:04who is president of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice in Venezuela.

01:11They are waiting for the authorities to present themselves at the hearing, begin the hearing

01:17as we have been seeing for this day and also all day yesterday.

01:25Let's recall that this is a process that includes hearings with all former presidential

01:31candidates that took part in the election that was on July 28th and also political representatives

01:38from all the political parties that had to do with this election process.

01:44The objective of these hearings is to gather all necessary information or all vital information

01:53from all the members of the political parties.

01:56Now we are seeing Attorney General Tarek William Saab, he is coming to greet the participants

02:02as he has done with all other participants who have agreed, who have complied with the

02:08summons that were issued by the Supreme Court of Venezuela, who did not appear upon someone

02:17who was a former presidential candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, and also a far-right representative.

02:25He did not show up to his hearing that was scheduled for yesterday, Wednesday, again,

02:35the headquarters of the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas.

02:39We are seeing as Attorney General William Saab continues to greet and also speak to

02:48the candidates and the political representatives.

02:53This is ahead of yet another hearing.

02:56We have been closely following all of this process as the hearings begin.

03:06Just in a few minutes, the authorities, the Supreme Court authorities led by Carlicia

03:12Rodríguez will appear and begin this hearing as they have done so with all of the political

03:22representatives.

03:23Just recall that this process that started yesterday on Wednesday and that began with

03:30the summoning of all political participants in the elections by the top court is taking

03:39place in the framework of the appeal of contention that was presented by President Nicolás Maduro.

03:50We are now seeing the authorities come into place.

03:55Let's hear Carlicia Rodríguez.

03:58It has been declared the hearing open.

04:04Citizen clerk initiated the purpose of this hearing.

04:09The purpose of this hearing is in accordance with the Article 85 of the Supreme Court of

04:15Justice.

04:16We are looking at the hearing that has just been initiated, formally initiated by the

04:26president of the top court of Venezuela, Carlicia Rodríguez.

04:31She has been presided all of the hearings that took place as of yesterday, Wednesday,

04:40and also they will continue until tomorrow, Friday, as all of the political parties, representatives

04:47come before the top court to give their own versions, all the information, all the evidence

04:53regarding the election process that is now being thoroughly investigated by the top court

05:01of Venezuela with the objective of clarifying anything that needs to be clarified, with

05:05the objective of also investigating anything that may have happened before, during or after,

05:11including denunciations made so far with no evidence by the far right, and also all of

05:19the violent actions that came after these denunciations.

05:25We were live in Caracas as the hearings continue in the Supreme Court of Venezuela.

05:31We were seeing as yet another hearing was beginning right now, and we will continue

05:36to closely follow this process that looks into the election process on July 28th.

05:43We'll be back with more information in upcoming news briefs.

05:46Stay with us.

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