Political parties and former presidential candidates appear before the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela. teleSUR
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00:00We go live to Caracas to the headquarters of the Supreme Court of Justice as the hearings
00:11continue in the judicial process.
00:16We are watching live on our screen the electoral chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice as
00:23the hearings have been occurring throughout the day on the judicial process of the July
00:2828th elections to investigate and clarify all the details and denunciations that have
00:33been made of alleged rigging, of alleged corruption, which no evidence has been presented as of
00:42yet.
00:43The far-right parties that were here early in the morning as they were leaving the Supreme
00:50Court, we saw the journalists asking them why they bring the evidence of the alleged
00:57fraud that they were denouncing.
01:01Throughout the day people have come, different political figures have come to present their
01:07allegations and to present the documents as requested by the Supreme Court of Justice,
01:13by the president of the Supreme Court of Justice that she made the announcement earlier this
01:16week of the dates that they were bound to arrive here and take part in these hearings.
01:24All this comes after last week President Maduro filed an appeal before this court to
01:31investigate and to clarify everything that had to do with the electoral process following
01:36the violent protests that took place led by the far-right opposition.
01:42Early in the morning, as we were saying, Manuel Rosales, Jose Luis Cartaya, and Jose Simon
01:49Casadillas were here present.
01:52The hearing that just ended before this one that is beginning right now was that of Luis
01:57Pajra of Venezuela First, and the news today was that Edmundo Gonzalez, who was also called
02:06to be present here today, denied to appear and failed to fulfill his obligations to come
02:14here today before the Supreme Court of Justice to present his allegations and proof of an
02:20alleged fraud that he was denouncing on social media during all these days that passed, even
02:26going as far as declaring himself president-elect of the nation, going against the constitutional
02:31laws of the country and against the constitutional, the democratic institutions of the nation.
02:37Here we're seeing the images.
02:38The president of the Supreme Court is already inside the room.
02:42These hearings are being held by the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, as well as
02:48in attendance of the Attorney General of the Bolivarian Republic, Terry Wheeler Zab, and
02:52the different people that are cited here to take part in this hearing, accompanied by
02:57their legal assessors.
03:02We're watching live how the hearing of this new political figure was beginning in this
03:21day of hearings that have been happening today in Caracas, and that will continue on Thursday
03:26and Friday is when the last day of the hearings, all the political leaders of the political
03:31parties that took part in the election, as well as the candidates, presidential candidates
03:35that took part in the July 20th elections, are called to participate and to express their
03:41allegations and provide their documents.
03:43Stay tuned with Terrestrial English for more.