SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office issued an arrest warrant on Monday against leader Edmundo González Urrutia, for not having responded to three summons to testify about the website web where the opposition published results broken down from the elections held on July 28.
According to the order, signed by prosecutor Luis Ernesto Duéñez, González is being accused of “usurpation of functions“crimes of forging public documents, instigation to disobedience of laws, criminal association, sabotage to damage systems and conspiracy.
According to the chain CNNthe website resultsconVzla.com is being investigated to determine who is responsible for its creation, since it would be “usurping” functions of the CNE.
Edmundo González has denied the accusations against him.
Chavismo justifies the arrest order with the alleged risk of the opposition leader fleeing, as well as obstructing the case.
What the Public Prosecutor’s Office would be trying to do is argue that after having summoned the party three times without his appearance, an arrest would be justified in order to take him there by force. This is what is known in Criminal Procedural Law as a warrant for taking him there,” he explained to the newspaper. The World the jurist Nizar El Fakih.
A recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela, controlled by magistrates close to Chavez, ratified the disputed victory of Nicolás Maduro in the elections of July 28 and said that the voting records The online reports showing he lost by a landslide were false.
According to the Chavista regime, Maduro obtained 51.95% of the votes in the elections, while Edmundo García only obtained 43.18%.
The opposition, which has managed to gather 81% of the voting records, currently public in your website for review by citizens and independent bodies, states that García far surpassed Maduro by almost 40% of the votes. This result has been recognized by countries such as Argentina, the United States and Peru, among others.
