Primero Justicia (PJ) issued a statement on the afternoon of Thursday, August 22, regarding the ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ): “This will not invalidate the popular sovereignty expressed by the vast majority of the Venezuelan people on July 28,” the party said in a statement.
The Primero Justicia (PJ) party issued a statement on the afternoon of Thursday, August 22, regarding the ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) that validated the results issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which gave the victory in the presidential elections to the ruler Nicolás Maduro: “This will not invalidate the popular sovereignty expressed by the vast majority of the Venezuelan people on July 28 with the victory of Edmundo González Urrutia,” the party indicated in a statement.
The political organization headed by María Beatriz Martínez points out that the judicial body “intends to certify the results read and order the publication of the same results without separately determining each electoral table as established by law and electoral principles.”
“These actions confirm what was warned by the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela, who warned of “the lack of independence and impartiality of the TSJ and the National Electoral Council (CNE)” and how these powers “have played a role within the repressive machinery” of Nicolás Maduro’s regime. Today, the magistrates of the Electoral Chamber – by certifying and validating Maduro’s fraud through an invalid sentence that is ineffective and null – violate the rights of Venezuelans guaranteed in the Constitution and, therefore, incur criminal, civil and administrative liability,” the letter reads.
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Persecution against González Urrutia and Machado
PJ clarifies that the persecution against “President Edmundo González Urrutia and leader María Corina Machado shows the fear they have of popular expression” exercised in the elections. Violence that was also applied to Venezuelans who went out to protest throughout the country to demand respect for their political rights and for which today more than two thousand people are arbitrarily detained.
Finally, the black and gold party denounces before the international community the “serious violation” of the Constitution, especially its article 5, which states that: Sovereignty resides in an untransferable manner in the people, who exercise it directly in the manner provided for in this Constitution and in the law, and indirectly, through suffrage, by the organs that exercise Public Power. The organs of the State emanate from popular sovereignty and are subject to it..
“The public powers held hostage by Maduro must respect the decision taken by the people and Edmundo González Urrutia must take office as President of the Republic on January 10, 2025,” he stressed.
Information: Primero Justicia Press
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