The main candidate of the Venezuelan opposition, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiadid not go this Friday to the headquarters of the prosecutor’s office, a Chavista organization for years, despite the threat of arrest. He is thus defying the repressive Bolivarian regime, which appropriated a fraudulent electoral victory and did not deliver the electoral results. And he is defying it because there is a threat of arrest hanging over him if he does not show up for this third meeting with the Venezuelan prosecutor’s office, which is investigating him for publishing data on the Internet that would prove his victory in the July 28 elections.
THE Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office, under the orders of the dictator Nicolas Maduro, had summoned this Thursday for the third time Edmundo Gonzalez, opposition candidate in the last presidential elections July 28. The threat of arrest had not been added to previous summonses.
Edmundo Gonzalez had already been summoned by the Prosecutor’s Office on two other occasions to explain his alleged involvement in crimes of usurpation of functions, falsification of documents, incitement to disobedience, computer crime, criminal association and conspiracy. He diet seeks to link the opposition candidate to events that occurred after the elections, while Nicolas Maduro He rigged the electoral process to maintain his power. Prosecutor’s Office investigation into relations between opposition leaders, Maria Corina Machado and his Gonzalez, with the dissemination on the Internet of electoral registers with data that prove the victory of the opposition in the last elections.
THE Prosecutor’s Office He sent a warning to Gonzalez. If you do not respond to the summons, the authorities will understand that there is a “danger of flight” and a “danger of obstruction” to the investigation and your arrest will be ordered. Tarek William Saab, Venezuela’s attorney general already announced on Wednesday that if González does not run, “the Public Ministry “will announce the corresponding action that will take place on the basis of the law.” The opposition leader justified his two previous absences by the lack of guarantees from the authorities. Chavistas. Barring any surprises, González will not be present on this occasion either.
