This Monday, the Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office issued an arrest warrant against former presidential candidate Edmundo González, a rival of Nicolás Maduro in the elections held on July 28, which were labeled as a fraud by the opposition and broad international actors.
The request was made public on social media and circulated after González failed to attend his third summons at the Public Ministry, which had been scheduled for last Friday, August 30, at 10:00 a.m., Caracas time.
Among the crimes listed by the Prosecutor's Office are usurpation of functions, forging a public document, incitement to disobedience of the laws, conspiracy to commit a crime, and conspiracy.
The former candidate denies all those charges outlined in the document written by prosecutor Luis Ernesto Dueñez Reyes.
Opposition leader María Corina Machado commented on this accusation through X: "They have lost all sense of reality. By threatening the elected President, they only manage to unite us further and increase support from Venezuelans and the world for Edmundo González. Calmness, courage, and firmness. We move forward."
Following the publication of the election results on the website "Resultados con VZLA," which belongs to the opposition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), the Prosecutor's Office attributed illegal activities to them for publishing records of the elections that showed they were winners when the National Electoral Council declared Nicolás Maduro the winner.
At the beginning of August, a document signed by Attorney General Tarek William Saab initiated a criminal investigation against María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia, prominent opposition leaders, accusing them of "instigation to insurrection."
Since July 28, the opposition has been denouncing electoral fraud and has accused the government of brutally repressing the protests that arose following Maduro's proclamation.
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