The Venezuelan head of State and Government, Nicolás Maduro, reaffirmed that the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) are ready to deliver 100% of the minutes before the summons made by the Supreme Court of Justice to the 10 former candidates who participated in the latest presidential election on July 28:
“I heard a statement from the president of the Supreme Court of Justice – Caryslia Rodríguez – in which she says that the ten candidates have already been judicially summoned, according to the codes and laws of the country. I received the judicial summons and (also to) the 38 heads of the 38 parties that participated in the elections,” he explained.
In stating that he will fully cooperate with the process, the Venezuelan President expressed his commitment to transparency and legality, announcing that he will answer all the questions of the court:
“I will go and I will answer all the questions of the court, and I told Diosdado Cabello, political leader of the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) and the entire Great Patriotic Pole, to prepare so that we can deliver, if so required, as I am sure will be, one hundred percent of the minutes that are in our possession, and I hope that all the candidates and all the parties deliver the documents there,” he stressed.
In response to the question about possible absences, Maduro said that “having all the candidates and parties been judicially summoned, which one of the candidates is not going to attend?”, he asked the people present at Miraflores Palace.
Maduro also addressed the current situation in the country, denouncing the attempted coup d’état through cybernetic media and social networks:
“The coup d’état that has been attempted against Venezuela is a cyber coup on fascist networks to divide and fill with hatred and lead a civil and criminal war that has trained and paid criminal gangs as its vanguard,” he warned.
The information was highlighted during an event with the grandfathers and grandmothers of the country who marched to the Government Palace to express their support for President Maduro, who explained that those responsible for violent acts do not represent the Venezuelan youth who work for a better country, reiterating his confidence in the youth:
“It is one thing that the criminals, paid and trained, are young, and another thing entirely that it is the youth, they are two different things, they have sown a bit of hatred in a youth that had not seen the face of fascism, that can be cured and overcome, but I trust and have absolute faith in the golden generation, in the brilliant generation and in the young generations of Venezuela who are studying, who are undertaking, who are working, who are artists, who make culture, let us have faith in our own and let us sow values,” he explained.
In context, on Tuesday afternoon, the Electoral Chamber formally ratified the appointment for the former presidential candidates and political parties to appear before the TSJ, an appointment which the dignitary Nicolás Maduro must attend next Friday, August 9.
