Mario Valdez from the Republican Movement Party attends to summon from the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) for a hearing for the July 28th elections investigative process. teleSUR
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00:00Let's go live to Caracas, Venezuela once again, where the electoral chamber of the
00:08Supreme Court of Justice is holding at this moment hearings with the former electoral
00:14candidates of the July 28th elections as part of the investigations into the electoral process
00:20that followed election day held in July 28th.
00:25At this moment the Supreme Court of Justice is receiving former presidential candidates
00:31who are attending the call of the electoral chamber after President Nicolás Maduro filed
00:36an appeal to verify and investigate the electoral process.
00:42The court started hearings for the individual appearance of the former candidates today
00:47and their legal representatives as well.
00:50Opposition candidates Manuel Rosales of Un Nuevo Tiempo, José Luis Cartaya for the Mesa
00:56de la Unidad Democrática and José Simón Calzadilla for the Movement for Venezuela
01:01were the first ones to appear earlier today.
01:06Just a few minutes ago former electoral candidate José Brito from the Venezuela First Movement
01:13offered statements during his appearance to the court, offered statements to the press
01:19and condemned Edmundo GarcĂa's failure, which is the far-right candidate, to appear
01:27before court and urge all former candidates to respect peace and democracy in the country.
01:33Let's highlight that Edmundo González, who was a candidate for the Democratic Unity
01:38Platform from the far-right wing, did not appear at the hearing in the Supreme Court
01:43of Justice electoral chamber today, where he was expected to present the voting records
01:48from the presidential elections held on July 28th, thus disobeying an explicit mandate
01:55from the Supreme Court.
01:57According to the Supreme Court President CarĂs Leal RodrĂguez, the failure to appear before
02:03the electoral chamber will have the consequences provided for in Venezuela's current legal
02:10system.
02:12The extreme right registered for elections and put up election witnesses, but since before
02:17the electoral process González already announced that he would sign fraud, after realizing
02:24they would not win, this is after the release of the results of the National Electoral Commission
02:31of Venezuela, the only entity allowed to provide official results after an electoral
02:37process in the country, and right after they realized that they would not win, the far-right
02:43candidate, former candidate, choose to promote violence with the intention of starting a
02:49civil war in the country, which has been neutralized by the government and also by the authorities
02:58of the police and military, which united in support of the government of pre-elected
03:04President Nicolás Maduro, to warranty peace in the country.
03:10This peace is also supported by the majority of the Venezuelan people who have been taken
03:17to the streets in the past few days following the results released by the National Electoral
03:25Commission giving the victory to President Nicolás Maduro.
03:29Thousands and thousands of Venezuelan people have been taken to the streets in support
03:33of peace.
03:35We were live to Caracas, Venezuela, where the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court
03:39of Justice is holding hearings along the day with former electoral candidates of July 28th
03:46elections as part of the judicial investigations into the electoral process and inquiries requested
03:52by re-elected President Nicolás Maduro.
03:55This is all for the moment, stay tuned with From the South.