Maduro asks the Supreme Court for protection to “clarify everything that needs to be clarified” regarding the elections

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Madurofiled an appeal for protection before the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) on Wednesday, in which it requests clarification of “everything that needs to be clarified” regarding Sunday’s elections, the official result of which ratified its victory despite allegations of fraud by the main opposition force.

That the court “should address this attack against the electoral process, this attempted coup d’état – using the electoral process – and clarify everything that needs to be clarified about these attacks, about this process,” Maduro said upon leaving the TSJ.

The president makes this request after Two days of protests in several regions of the country against his announced re-election, since the main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), claims that its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, won the elections by a wide margin and created a website with the electoral records that – they claim – prove their claim.

In Maduro’s opinion, however, it is the “most criminal attempt to seize power” that has “been seen to date” and is “a global plot against Venezuela” that seeks to remove him from the presidency, which he took office in 2013, after the death of his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.

“I am willing to be summoned, questioned (…) investigated by the Electoral Chamber as the presidential candidate who won Sunday’s elections and as head of state,” he stressed.

He Carter Centerwhich participated as an observer in the elections, said on Tuesday that the process “did not conform” to the international parameters and standards of electoral integrity, and therefore “cannot be considered a democratic election.”

More than 1000 detainees

On the other hand, the Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saabhas raised the number of those arrested during the protests to more than 1,000. Saab explained in a press conference that if it is proven that the 1,062 detainees did not participate in violent acts “they will be released.” “If their guilt is proven, they will be charged,” he said, according to the newspaper. The universal.

In addition, according to the Human Rights NGO Foro Penal, the protests against Maduro’s victory have already resulted in at least eleven deadtwo of them minors. The opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has reported arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances and even murders.