Former candidate Christian Chirinos attends hearing at Venezuelan Supreme Court

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

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00:00We go once again live to Caracas, Venezuela, as the top court of the country has summoned

00:06and is receiving the presentations and the hearings that have called upon all former

00:14presidential candidates and also representatives of the political parties that are presenting

00:19themselves before the top court, specifically before the electoral chamber of the top court.

00:29This is a hearing that is taking place at the headquarters of the Supreme Court in Caracas,

00:35Venezuela, and we can see as yet another one of the presidential political parties that

00:45have presented themselves in the July 28th election are appearing before the top court

00:54and they are awaiting at this moment as the authorities are about to enter the session.

01:03We have been closely following all this process along since the beginning of the hearings

01:09that began on Wednesday and that will continue.

01:12We are talking about this first round of hearings to recover all necessary information, evidence

01:19that political parties may need to present before the Supreme Court of Venezuela upon

01:26their request.

01:28The first request was summoning all former presidential candidates and also representatives

01:34of political parties and legal representatives.

01:39This is what we are seeing now.

01:44Presidential candidates that took part in the July 28th elections have been going through

01:51the headquarters of the Supreme Court, of the electoral chamber, all along yesterday.

01:59This is Wednesday 16th and now Thursday, the same thing.

02:04We are looking at the current hearing that is about to begin as the authorities are about

02:13to enter the hall.

02:14Let's recall that this process was initiated by the contentious appeal filed by Nicolás

02:20Maduro, president of Venezuela.

02:32This is what we are looking at right now.

02:35The contentious appeal filed by Nicolás Maduro led to the Supreme Court taking charge of

02:43this investigation, thorough investigation, into the entire electoral process of July

02:5028th, from before, during and after election day, also including a series of accusations

02:59and violent acts that followed the election.

03:03And one of the first instances of this thorough investigation has been to summon all political

03:11participants to appear before the Supreme Court and that is what we are seeing today

03:18and also what we saw yesterday.

03:21We have just seen the first authorities, in this case, General Prosecutor Tarek William

03:27Zab, who came into the hearing.

03:33We also greeted the participants and now we are waiting for the top authorities of

03:41this chamber, that is Carlicia Rodríguez, who will probably just in some minutes come

03:48into the chamber and initiate this hearing that we are seeing right now.

03:54Let's recall this is all part of the process of investigation that is being led by Venezuelan

04:00top court into the whole, the entire process.

04:05One of the aims is to clarify anything that needs to be clarified, those were the words

04:11of President Nicolás Maduro, in the face of what the government has also denounced

04:17as constant attacks from foreign media and also foreign powers, several denunciations

04:25that were made by some sectors of the opposition, precisely the extreme right wing sectors of

04:30the opposition, that have presented no evidence.

04:33So this process aims to clarify all of that and also call the political parties to present

04:39their evidence.

04:40Now we are looking at the authorities that are taking a seat and initiating.

04:47It has been declared and opened the hearing.

04:53Please, the clerk, said the purpose of this hearing.

04:59The purpose of this hearing is in correspondence with the Article 85 of the Organic Law of

05:09the Supreme Court of Justice, and so it is applicable to the Organic Law and to the purpose

05:18of receiving, well the candidates must respond to the questions of the Supreme Court and

05:28the, she's saying the number, the speedy number, and it is being recorded that the

05:38lawyer Orlando Duque is present, who is acting, who is a representation of the Soluciones por

05:49Venezuela movement, and it has been present that Dr. Tarek William Saab, functioning as

05:57the general, as the attorney general of this republic.

06:02We are looking at the hearing that is beginning at this moment.

06:07Once again we are following, closely following all the process that is being carried out

06:11at the top court of Venezuela regarding the elections of July 28th.

06:17We'll come back to this as the day continues.

06:20In other news.

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