The Attorney General wants the opposition candidate to testify for alleged “disobedience”, for not accepting the election fraud.
HAVANA TIMES – The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Venezuela will summon “in the coming hours” the presidential candidate of the majority opposition, Edmundo González, for a criminal investigation against him due to his alleged crime of criticizing the stolen election.
Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced that he would later disclose “in due time, manner, and place” the details of this summons. He will demand that the candidate of the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) answer for the website where electoral records were published that, according to the opposition and a host of independent analysts, confirm Gonzalez’s victory in the July 28th election.
“He has to come to this summons to speak, consequently and successively, about his responsibility before, during, and after July 28, for his obstinacy and disobedience to the authorities,” the prosecutor said in a speech broadcast by the state channel VTV on Friday, August 23, 2024.
The Prosecutor’s Threats Against Edmundo Gonzalez
Saab hopes that Gonzalez “will testify about his authorship” in the publication of these data, which he emphasized “has usurped” a task “that only corresponds” to the National Electoral Council (CNE), which has yet to publish the precinct-by-precinct results that would confirm Maduro’s supposed victory at the polls as the CNE announced on Election Night.
“He doesn’t show his face, no one knows where he is,” commented Saab, referring to Gonzalez’s decision to remain “in hiding” in response to threats to imprison him and opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado.
Saab said Gonzalez “is in hiding,” due to “his extreme cowardice, terror, and fear of ju
