Venezuela | Prosecutor's Office calls Edmundo Gonzalez to testify
Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, stated that citizen Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, would be subpoenaed to testify before the Prosecutor's Office. TeleSUR correspondent Gladys Quesada, offers more details. teleSUR
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00:00Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab,
00:02stated that in the coming hours, the citizen, Edmundo González,
00:05will testify before the prosecutor's office.
00:09Saab summoned the main opposition leader
00:11to render statements on his rejection
00:14of the final judgment issue by the Supreme Court of Justice,
00:17in which the election of President Nicolás Maduro
00:20was ratified.
00:22The attorney general stated that González Urrutia did not
00:25recognize the electoral results given
00:28by the National Electoral Council,
00:30nor the ratification of the Supreme Court of Justice.
00:45Hi, yes.
00:45Thanks for the time and the contact hearing from the South
00:48and for this opportunity to give you
00:51the updates of what is going on in Venezuela
00:54to you and to our audience.
00:56Yes, currently, the General Attorney of Venezuela,
00:59Tarek William Saab, offered his statements.
01:02He addressed the nation.
01:04And he started by saying that he salutes, he greets,
01:07he applauds the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice,
01:12the electoral instance of this body of justice,
01:15that in this occasion, well, yesterday precisely,
01:19was confirming the decision of the National Electoral
01:23Council and the results of the July 28
01:25presidential elections that called
01:27the win for the current constitutional president
01:30of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Morales.
01:33The attorney general also started his address
01:37saying that he calls for no interference in Venezuela's
01:41internal affairs.
01:42And he was also summarizing other cases
01:45that electoral instances of the justices of other countries
01:50were in the same case and in the same situation
01:53that Venezuela is right now.
01:54He was referring to Brazil with the occasion
01:58that the elections were contested,
01:59also in the United States and in other, well,
02:03countries and nations.
02:05He also was saying that Venezuela
02:07has the right to self-determination
02:09and to resolve internally and with its institutions
02:14every one of the, or every single of the businesses
02:18and problems and maybe this kind of situations
02:21that presents in the legal landscape here in Venezuela.
02:25Also, the prosecutor, he was explaining the process
02:30in the aftermath of the July 28 presidential elections
02:33when the president, Nicolás Maduro Morales,
02:36was presenting this recourse on the Supreme Court of Justice
02:40and how every candidate and representative
02:44of the political organizations in the country
02:46were present there offering their statements,
02:49their declarations, and the evidence of what they saw
02:53and had also the ballot sheets that they consigned
02:56and presented to this instance of justice.
02:59And he stressed that the only one candidate
03:02that never showed up, that never went to give his statements
03:08to the court was Edmundo González Urrutia,
03:11the candidate for the United Democratic Platform,
03:15and he is the far-right opposition candidate
03:18and the only one that never showed up for this process,
03:22for this legal and justice process in the country.
03:25Also, he was saying that González Urrutia
03:28is still in contempt.
03:30This means that he never showed up to the mandate
03:33and for the, call it the subpoena
03:35of the Supreme Court of Justice,
03:37and afterwards he is still not abiding by the law,
03:42he's not abiding by the mandate
03:44of the institutions of the nation,
03:46so he is in legal contempt,
03:48a figure that is punished by the law
03:50here in Venezuela and internationally also.
03:54Also, he said that González Urrutia
03:57is under investigation for the usurpation of functions,
04:01and he was referring to the website
04:05resultadosconvenezuela.com,
04:07which is resultswithvenezuela.com,
04:09is a parallel institution that they tried to forge
04:13and to create to announce the results
04:15of the National Electoral Council also,
04:17and to contest its results,
04:19and give a parallel reality on the results
04:22of the July 28th presidential elections.
04:25He also said that González Urrutia
04:26is under investigation for usurpation of functions,
04:30as I was saying, the instigation to disobey laws,
04:34that means that he was calling people,
04:36he was trying to, while doing this call
04:40on the people of Venezuela to do these disobedience acts,
04:44these terrorist actions, these violence actions
04:46that had place on July 29th and 30th.
04:49And also, he was saying that he is under investigation
04:52because of conspiracy, computer crimes,
04:56associations to commit crimes,
04:58forgery of public documents, among others.
05:01The forgery of public documents,
05:03he was referring to the results sheets
05:06of the July 28th presidential elections
05:08that were published in this website
05:12that has no validity and has no institutional backing
05:16here in Venezuela.
05:18Also, and concluding his intervention,
05:20he was saying that in the next hours,
05:22Edmundo González Urrutia will be summoned
05:25by the public prosecutor's office
05:27to render statements on his responsibility
05:30with the page, the website,
05:32that he attempted to usurp the electoral power.
05:35So, by now, or so far, this is the information,
05:38so the public, the attorney general's public office
05:42is summoning, is subpoenaing Edmundo González Urrutia
05:46because, most of all, or maybe Grasso Moro,
05:51and this usurpation of functions
05:54and the forgery of public documents.
05:57That's to say, that is a crime
05:59because it is trying to establish parallel state,
06:03a parallel reality here in Venezuela.
06:05And so far, he's still in contempt
06:08with the calling of the institutions.
06:10That's the information so far.
06:12Those were the declarations of the general attorney,
06:15Tarek William Saab,
06:17and we are expecting other statements
06:19and maybe other actions in the future,
06:21so stay tuned with TELUS or English for more information.
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