Nicolas Maduro: I have asked that my hearing be released to be known publicly.
Statement by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro after his hearing at the Supreme Court on the presidential elections of July 28. teleSUR
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00:00Well, good afternoon again to those who are watching us, who are listening to us by TV,
00:09by radio, on national and international media outlets and on social media.
00:18We are at the Temple of Justice in Venezuela, the Supreme Court of Justice.
00:29I have appeared to the summons of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Bolivarian Republic
00:41of Venezuela, which is not a puppet of anyone in this world.
00:49I have been deprived of all immunities as a head of state.
00:58I am only the citizen Nicolás Maduro Moro, who I am just appearing at the respective
01:13summons for peace.
01:14I have come here for stability and the right to tranquility that Venezuela has, for exercising
01:24the public powers and the legacy of liberators of the whole continent who were born in this
01:40land and who liberated from the old empire our lands.
01:49I am here.
01:50I am just Nicolás Maduro Moro, citizen, a regular citizen.
01:56I have answered the questionnaire which legally the Supreme Court made me.
02:08I haven't eluded any question from the magistrates.
02:19With this contentious electoral appeal, which is historical and which is just attached to,
02:29abided by the Constitution, the former nine presidential candidates have appeared at the
02:42Supreme Court of Justice, complying with the previous subpoena.
02:50A just candidate refused to appear before the Supreme Court of Justice.
03:00He didn't appear before the court and he didn't face the people.
03:09He is just as ordering people to kill and ordering, trying to give us coup d'etat.
03:17What a crying shame, what a crying shame those voters of this candidate must feel, because
03:28he is hiding out to try to destroy the peace of the republic.
03:33I am always facing, I am always in front of everything.
03:40I am just tackling every problem that may arise.
03:45It is outrageous the acts of this candidate who disregarded the National Electoral Council
03:52once, over and over.
03:56He disregarded the people, he disregarded the Constitution and he intends to proclaim
04:06it himself based on a spurious cry of violence and criminality.
04:17There have been subpoenaed 38 political parties, participants of the 28th July election.
04:33And the 38 political parties have appeared, all heads and legal representatives under
04:41the electoral power have complied strictly with the subpoena and they have responded
04:52the judicial questionnaires which have been filed in the trial underway, which is belonging
05:06to this contentious appeal.
05:08I want to thank the 13 political parties and movements that supported the candidacy
05:22of this man that is here, Nicolás Maduro Moro.
05:28I appreciate Henry Páraz, President of the Communist Party of Venezuela, who appeared
05:36at the subpoena.
05:40I thank Gilberto Jiménez, President, to a head of a religious organization and to Ambassador
05:56Medina, lawmaker of the Patria Para Todos party.
06:03And I thank compatriot Henry Hernández, President of the United Unidad Nacional Venezolana.
06:17I thank William José Benavides, the head of Todos Podemos, and the young leader Ricardo
06:28Sánchez, General Secretary of the Alliance for Change party, and to Bachelor Vanessa
06:37Montero, Secretary General of Somos Venezuela movement, and to, I think, engineer and coordinator
06:48of Verde party, and Hector RodrĂguez, coordinator of Futuro movement, and among others, representatives
07:05and to, and I thank captain of the Bolivarian armed, and Vice President of the United Socialist
07:18Party, Diosdado Cabello.
07:22They have delivered all affidavits and all documents fully and directly before the electoral
07:35chamber, abided by the constitution and the laws, and as it was demanded by the Supreme
07:44Court of Justice of the Republic.
07:47I want to appreciate, I want to thank all that professional work that you have made,
07:55as I referred at the hearing, we, through this new electoral system, and through this
08:04new constitution, we have 31, we have had 31 elections within 25 years.
08:14We have won 29 elections in different contests, one more favorable, and other hardshard, but
08:28we have won 29 elections, and we have lost with honor, and with our constitutional loyalty.
08:40When we lose, when we lost, we didn't, we didn't take to the streets to burn down anything,
08:48because we respect the constitution, we respect the people, and I said proudly that the forces
08:57that represent the legacy of Commander Hugo Chavez, the United Socialist Party, and the
09:04great patriotic Paul Simon Bolivar, we have the experience, the mechanism, the organization,
09:12the professional capacity, and the expertise to lead an electoral process, and to collect
09:22all documents that were delivered today, very thoughtfully, to the electoral chamber, and
09:34as it is remarkable and public, it is outrageous, the absence of Mundo González Urrutia, and
09:46the three statements of his three representatives are outrageous, as they are disregarding everything
09:58that has to do with electoral material, and all media outlets are hiding, are hiding out those
10:07facts, and do you want CNN, AFP, U.S. government, there won't be any civil war, and it is outrageous
10:20that this candidate abandoned his voters, that he doesn't comply with the law, and doesn't appear
10:29before the Supreme Court of Justice, it is outrageous how they chant fraud, and don't bring
10:38to the court the evidence of that fraud, they didn't deliver anything, and it was recorded
10:48and signed by them, that they don't have anything, here it is, in a court of the republic, I imagine
10:57that you will say today, CNN, AFP, U.S. government, it is a lot to us, it is a lot to us to tell you,
11:08to tell the truth, you will insist on that, on saying, on broadcasting that Venezuela is under
11:16civil war, I told you already, I told you very, with affection, very often, and today I reaffirmed
11:28that the media outlets attached and endorsed by the U.S. imperialism, and oligarchies,
11:38and far-right oligarchies, as Elon Musk and company, they will continue insisting on disrupting
11:46and destabilizing Venezuela, justifying violence, lying about the republican life that the country
11:55has, by being harassed and persecuted by you, I will tell you again, very softly,
12:05I have complied with justice, with law, I am just at your disposal, at the disposal of all
12:18organs of justice, that from this temple of justice, the truth be revealed,
12:26and with the truth, the justice will be fulfilled, because this coup against the state,
12:37this criminal, violent, and fascist ambush, that intended to lead us to a spiral of violence,
12:47to be able to have a coup d'etat, and to destroy the institutions and society, and disrupting the
12:57stability of Venezuela, they couldn't achieve it, and they won't achieve it, because justice will
13:05prevail, peace will be consolidated, and constitution will reign again in Venezuela,
13:13I am at your disposal for further questions,
13:19there was a