Edmundo González Urrutia deplored the “savage” repression of peaceful protesters. “Enough of the persecution and violence, enough of trying to spread terror, enough of disrespecting the will of Venezuelans for change. Let (Maduro) accept what our people have expressed and let us begin to get our country out of this crisis,” he said.
Edmundo González Urrutia called on President Nicolás Maduro this Saturday, August 10, to stop the violence and persecution, as well as to “immediately release” all Venezuelans arbitrarily detained. “Demanding that the Constitution be complied with is not a crime, peacefully protesting to enforce the will of millions of Venezuelans is not a crime, acting as an electoral witness, taking care of the minutes and making them public is not a crime, and reporting on what happened on July 28 is not a crime,” he said.
In a message posted on social media, he said that, on the contrary, it is a crime not to accept the will of the Venezuelan people, as well as “unjustly disappearing, persecuting, imprisoning and condemning hundreds of Venezuelans.”
In this way, the candidate who participated in the presidential election on July 28 for the opposition parties that make up the Democratic Unitary Platform, responded to what was also pointed out this Saturday by the president of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez, that González Urrutia He was in contempt of court by not attending the hearing called by the body and by not complying with the submission of the minutes of the vote count, the list of witnesses, nor any electoral material.
González Urrutia deplored the “savage” repression of peaceful protesters. “Enough of the persecution and violence, enough of trying to spread terror, enough of disrespecting the will of Venezuelans for change. Let (Maduro) accept what our people have expressed and let us begin to get our country out of this crisis.”
On the other hand, he sent a message to the Venezuelan population in which he assures that he will “stay by their side” and will continue working to defend what was expressed in the presidential elections.
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