This Friday began the third and final day of hearings of the Venezuelan Supreme Court to political parties and former presidential candidates of the July 28 elections. teleSUR
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00:00So we're looking at live images from Caracas.
00:08This is the headquarters of the Supreme Court of Justice.
00:15As different political candidates and also representatives of the political parties are
00:21being summoned throughout this week.
00:23This is a process that started on Wednesday.
00:30As the different representatives have been taking part in the hearings that began a couple
00:40of days ago, let's recall that this is all in the process of the contentious appeal that
00:52was filed by the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, as he asked for the Supreme Court
01:05of the country to take over the process of investigation, a complete process of investigation
01:11of the entire electoral process of July 28th, both before all the events leading up to it,
01:21the day of the election and also the actions that happened afterwards.
01:28For this process, the Supreme Court has taken it upon itself to thoroughly investigate all
01:36the actions regarding the elections and has thus summoned all of the different political
01:44representatives, that is, legal representatives that are related to the different political
01:55parties that participated in the elections and also former presidential candidates.
02:02These hearings have started on Wednesday this week, as we were saying.
02:07They have continued throughout Thursday and are coming to an end, this first round of
02:16initial hearings on Friday, where also around noon, re-elected president Nicolás Maduro
02:32is set to appear before the Supreme Court.
02:37We are looking at images of the first authorities coming into the session, that is General Prosecutor
02:43Tarek William Saab, who is greeting the representatives who have been summoned to the hearing.
02:57He is greeting them and exchanging a few words, as he has done on prior occasions as
03:04well throughout the week, as we have seen it.
03:07And this is the beginning.
03:09The hearing has not yet officially initiated.
03:12That will happen once the authorities come into play.
03:20So at this moment, people are settling in.
03:25Let's recall that this is a process that initiates the complete investigation into everything
03:36related to July 28th elections.
03:48So we've been seeing all the different former presidential candidates appearing before the
03:55Supreme Court, with the notable exception of far-right representative Edmundo González,
04:02who was summoned to appear on the first day of callings during this week, and failed to
04:08do so.
04:10The tribunal has stated that failing to appear before a specific call of the Supreme Court
04:19could lead to judicial consequences.
04:23One of the objectives of this process of investigation is the possibility of all parties involved
04:30in the elections to present all evidence and all information before the Supreme Court in
04:38order for the tribunal to investigate and draw its own conclusions of the whole process.
04:46However, the far-right representative failed to do so at the moment.
04:54Now we see that the authorities are coming in.
04:56We are looking at Carlicia RodrĂguez, president of the Supreme Court, who is now greeting
05:07those who are present and formally initiating the hearing.
05:16Now we see how the authorities are officially beginning this hearing that continues with
05:27the process that has been open throughout the remaining days.
05:34And that is also the beginning stage of, of course, a longer period of time.
05:40Let's recall that the objective, the objectives of the first hearings is to summon all political
05:46representatives, also former presidential candidates, before the court in order for
05:52them to give their full account, full information, and all the evidence that they have to provide
05:58regarding the presidential elections, the entire process, and particularly the events
06:05that took place on July 28th.
06:11So we are looking at the authorities, the formal announcements and the formal initiation
06:19of this hearing.
06:25And let's recall, we are live, we are watching live images from Venezuela, Caracas, headquarters
06:32of the Supreme Court.
06:34And that was the images of this first hearing on Friday.
06:38Let's recall that this is a process that has been carrying out throughout the week and
06:42seeks to retrieve all necessary information from all political parties involved in the
06:47process of the elections of July 28th.
06:50We'll come back with further information on this process on upcoming news briefs.
06:54Stay with us.