The presidential campaign of Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González says he will not appear before the country’s high court. The court is holding hearings related to an election audit requested by President Nicolás Maduro. González has questioned the legality of the proceedings and expressed serious concerns over his safety.
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado talks to presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez during a press conference after electoral authorities declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the presidential election in Caracas, Venezuela , Monday, July 29, 2024. The Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela , Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. The country’s high court is conducting an audit of the disputed, July 28 presidential election.
Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice on Monday ordered González, the candidate of the opposition coalition, Maduro and the other eight candidates in the July 28 presidential election to attend hearings scheduled through Friday.González was first on the list, but in a statement posted on social media, he questioned the legality of the proceedings and expressed serious concerns over his safety.
“I will put at risk not only my freedom but, more importantly, the will of the Venezuelan people expressed on July 28, 2024 and the gigantic effort of the Venezuelans who have participated in this process so that we could obtain evidence of the vote validly cast by the citizens,” he said.
Judge Caryslia Rodríguez, president of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice and its electoral court, during a nationally televised hearing on Monday warned that failure to appear would entail the corresponding consequences provided by law but did not give any details.
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