Venezuela | Eric Ondarroa attends Supreme Court summon
Eric Ondarroa from the Pencil Aliance goes to the Venezuelan Supreme Court for the hearing on the July 28 elections. teleSUR
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00:00We are going live to Caracas at this moment, Venezuela, where the Electoral Chamber of
00:05the Supreme Court of Justice is holding the second day of hearings with the former electoral
00:10candidates of the July 28th elections as part of the investigations into the electoral process
00:15following the elections of July 28th.
00:18For this second consecutive day, the Supreme Court of Justice is receiving the former presidential
00:26candidates.
00:27At this moment, we are seeing the former candidate Erick Ondarroa before the Supreme Court of
00:34Justice of the country.
00:36Also today, the president of the highest judicial authority of the country, Carice Lea Rodríguez,
00:43received the representative of the Popular Will Party, José Noriega, who was required
00:48to arrive before the judges on Thursday morning.
00:52During his statements, let's recall that José Noriega said,
00:55We bring all the information that Arepa Digital, Popular Will and I have gathered.
01:02We are here to strengthen transparency, to give the country confidence in these presidential
01:07elections and also to ensure that Venezuelans address the issues we face.
01:13Subsequently, the representative of Renewal and Hope, José Perdomo, also appeared earlier
01:20today before the judges to present all the electoral materials his political organization
01:26has in its possession.
01:28Let's remember that last week, the Supreme Court officially summoned the 10 presidential
01:33candidates and also the representatives of political parties to present all the electoral
01:39materials they have in their possession, a process that started on Wednesday.
01:44It is estimated that these hearings before the electoral chamber could last 15 days and
01:51may be extended if the Supreme Court authorities deem it necessary.
01:56At this moment, we can see the president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Carice Lea Rodríguez,
02:01has made an entrance to the courtroom before the former electoral candidate that is being
02:07attending today to this judicial process that started yesterday on Wednesday.
02:13In this context, let's highlight that Edmundo González, who was a candidate for the Democratic
02:19Unity Platform, PUD, did not appear at the hearing in the Supreme Court of Justice electoral
02:25chamber where he was expected to present this Wednesday the voting records from the presidential
02:32elections held on July 28th, thus this being an explicit mandate from the Supreme Court.
02:40In this regard, according to the president of the Supreme Court, who we are seeing at
02:45this moment in the courtroom, the failure to appear before the electoral chamber will
02:52have the consequences provided for in our current legal system elections.
02:58Let's recall that in these elections on July 28th, precisely the candidate of the great
03:04patriotic Paul Nicolás Maduro was re-elected as president of Venezuela for the 2025-2031
03:12term with 51.9% of the votes.
03:16Also the far-right politician Edmundo González, who by the way proclaimed himself as Venezuelan
03:23president, registered for elections and put up election witnesses.
03:29We at this moment were live to Caracas, Venezuela, where the electoral chamber of the Supreme
03:33Court of Justice is holding hearings throughout the day with the former electoral candidates
03:39of the July 28th elections as part of the judicial investigations into the electoral
03:44process and inquiry requested by re-elected president Nicolás Maduro.
03:48This is all for the moment, stay tuned with From the South.