Venezuela | Miguel Salazar of COPEI attends hearing at the Supreme Court
Miguel Salazar from the Comité de Organización Política Electoral Independiente (COPEI), also know as the Social Christian Party or Green Party, attends to summon at the Supreme Court of Justice for the July 28th elections investigative process. teleSUR
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00:00We are live in Caracas, Venezuela, where the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of
00:14Justice is holding hearings with the former electoral candidates of the July 28th elections.
00:20This is a spot of the investigations into the electoral process that followed the July
00:2628th election day.
00:29At this moment, the Supreme Court of Justice Electoral Chamber is receiving former presidential
00:35candidates who attended the call to the Electoral Chamber after President Nicolás Maduro filed
00:41an appeal to verify and investigate the electoral process.
00:46The Court started the hearings today for the individual appearance of the former candidates
00:52and their legal representatives.
00:55Opposition candidates Manuel Rosales of Un Nuevo Tiempo, José Luis Cartaya for Table
01:01of Democratic Unity and also José Simón Calzadilla for the Movement for Venezuela
01:08were the first to appear earlier today.
01:11The highest judicial authority of the country also received representatives from right-wing
01:17organizations, among whom were Zulia Governor Manuel Rosales from Un Nuevo Tiempo, José
01:23Cartaya from the Democratic Unity Roundtable, and also none of them presented either evidence
01:31or records to the judges.
01:33At this moment, the Supreme Court of Justice is receiving documents from former candidates
01:41of the electoral process that took place on July 28th.
01:49The political parties that supported the candidacy of Edmundo González Urrutia did not present
01:57evidence and also Edmundo González did not show up today at the Supreme Court of Justice,
02:08defying the orders from the President of the Supreme Court, Carisla Rodríguez.
02:15According to the President of the highest judicial authority of the country, Carisla
02:21Rodríguez, the failure to appear before the electoral chamber will have the consequences
02:26provided for in Venezuela's current legal system.
02:30That's what she warned when she sent the opponents to the political parties earlier
02:36this week.
02:37The extreme right registered for elections and also put up election witnesses, but since
02:43before the electoral process, Edmundo González had already announced that he would sign fraud
02:48even months before the elections were held in the country.
02:52At this moment, the President of the Supreme Court is entering the courtroom and sitting
02:57before the representatives and is offering statements to the people present at the courtroom.
03:10According to the Supreme Court, President Carisla Rodríguez, as we mentioned earlier,
03:16the failure to appear before the electoral chamber will have the consequences provided
03:22in Venezuela's current legal system.
03:26Let's recall that the former candidate of the Great Patriotic Pole and President Nicolás
03:32Maduro will appear on Friday before the Supreme Court.
03:37This political coalition is prepared to deliver 100% of the electoral records that are in
03:43their possession.
03:44That's what the President assured earlier on Tuesday.
03:51This week, the Supreme Court President Carisla Rodríguez, who is at this moment addressing
03:59people present in the courtroom of the electoral chamber of the Supreme Court, Carisla Rodríguez
04:09summoned all former presidential candidates to present the electoral records in their
04:13possession as of today, August 7th until August 9th.
04:28We went live to Caracas, Venezuela, where the electoral chamber of the Supreme Court
04:32of Justice is holding hearings with the 10 former electoral candidates of the July 28th
04:39elections as part of the judicial investigations into the electoral process.
04:42An inquiry is requested by re-elected President Nicolás Maduro.