Western-backed figures have contested President Nicolas Maduro’s election victory and have known as on the nation’s safety forces to affix protests
Venezuela has launched a legal investigation into Western-backed opposition figures Edmundo Gonzalez and Maria Corina Machado, after they posted a letter urging the armed forces to desert their assist for nation’s reliable president, Nicolas Maduro.
Venezuela’s Nationwide Electoral Council (CNE) on July 28 declared Maduro the winner of the nation’s presidential election. On Friday, Venezuelan authorities ratified Maduro’s victory after the ultimate poll rely revealed that he had gained 52% of the vote, in comparison with 43% for foremost rival Gonzalez.
The opposition contested Maduro’s victory and proclaimed Gonzalez because the elected president in a letter posted on X (previously Twitter), additionally calling on the nation’s safety forces to “stand by the individuals” and protest the outcome.
Gonzalez and Machado “falsely introduced a winner of the presidential election apart from the one proclaimed by the Nationwide Electoral Council, the one physique certified to take action,” Venezuela’s high prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, mentioned in a press release on Monday.
The previous presidential candidate and his allies have overtly incited “police and navy officers to disobey the legal guidelines” by spreading false data, the assertion added.
The prosecutor basic mentioned Gonzalez and Machado can be investigated for “the alleged fee of the crimes of usurpation of features, dissemination of false data to trigger unrest, incitement to disobey the regulation, incitement to rebel, affiliation to commit crimes and conspiracy.”
Protests erupted within the South American nation following the announcement of the election outcomes. Maduro condemned the unrest an tried “coup towards Venezuela.”
Protection Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez additionally accused the Western-backed opposition of trying a “media coup” and condemned the protests.
Washington backed the opposition candidate, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying on Thursday that “Edmundo Gonzalez gained probably the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election.”
Caracas has been beneath US sanctions for over 15 years. Washington refused to acknowledge Maduro as president following the 2018 election, and declared the top of the Nationwide Meeting, Juan Guaido, to be the interim chief of the nation. Following Maduro’s reelection, Russia and China congratulated the incumbent. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned final week that Venezuela’s opposition ought to admit defeat and congratulate the winner. Different international locations which have acknowledged Maduro’s victory embody Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
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