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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00:00Good afternoon, President. Good afternoon, all of you.
00:03When there is the closure of the electoral process,
00:10then there are all political witnesses and each of them,
00:15the Italian sheets are delivered to each of them.
00:21And how do you assess that the representatives of those
00:28supporting Edmundo Gonzalez, they have the Italian sheets,
00:33but they didn't deliver to the Supreme Court of Justice.
00:37And on the other side, they are under the empire of law.
00:41And if any person disagrees with the results of elections,
00:47they have the right to oppose, to appeal the results.
00:55And what do you think about the publication of some Italian sheets on websites?
01:05And finally, the president of the electoral chamber and president of the Supreme Court of Justice,
01:12Caricilia RodrĂguez, when she summoned all candidates here,
01:20she demanded that be abided by the decision of the electoral chamber.
01:28In your particular case, what reflections can you make about this that I have said?
01:36Thank you very much. First of all, they had the opportunity.
01:43It was public. It was loud and clear that the electoral chamber was summoned all data.
02:03And I have asked that my hearing will be free to disclose it publicly.
02:14And I would ask that everything be published because it is public.
02:22And it was recorded at the hearing that they don't have any affidavits, any material.
02:29They said so. The candidates of the far right said it is outrageous their absence,
02:41as it was outrageous his absence on the agreement for recognizing the results given by the National Electoral Council,
02:54because they didn't recognize the National Electoral Council, just the US government.
03:03So it is outrageous the assurances of those representatives of the far right because they don't have anything.
03:14And if you can join this with the audit, the tech audit of the website that they published,
03:21in which the 83% of documents are just fake, were being forged.
03:32Venezuela must know that that website was auditable and that the 83% turned out to be fake
03:44for different reasons that it has been disclosed on social media and on outlets.
03:55And in this website, the fascist candidate Urrutia takes responsibility for all being published on that website.
04:12He won't say, as people have said, when someone said that he didn't know what he was signing.
04:29What's going to say Elmundo Gonzalez? That he didn't read? That he was not knowing what was publishing?
04:38He has just published forged documents, so law must prevail.
04:45The vast majority of Venezuelans want peace.
04:51We want that this doesn't become an escalated conflict that destroys the economy.
05:01We want to continue working, to continue advancing, to learn about the social problems of people,
05:09about job, education, health, taking care about our most concerning issues as a society.
05:20This is not about a movement.
05:23It is about the people who have the right to peace, independence, tranquility to the republican life.
05:31The vast majority of Venezuelans, we want that institutions be respected.
05:41And the only institutions with national competence and sovereignty to dictate this attempt of coup d'etat
05:55and this attempt of destabilization are the National Electoral Council,
06:01who issued results as constitution ordered. It is not a website.
06:13Can a country accept that a foreign government tell them what to do?
06:23Do we interfere in other countries' affairs?
06:27Can a country accept to become a puppet country ordered by foreign countries, a neo-colonial country?
06:46No one in this world, in this 21st century, wishes or accepts to be ordered by any other country.
06:56Who decides in Venezuela, the government of the United States or the Venezuelan institutions?
07:02Who determines the truth and justice in Venezuela, the U.S. Supreme Court or a foreign government?
07:11I like a lot the method of the public interrogation for each one draws his or her own conclusions.
07:27And I said that I used to say, do you want to return to a crisis called Guarimbas in Venezuela?
07:40And I told them, CNN didn't get any picture of any of my over my 300 acts during the campaign.
07:56They didn't get any images of those we have as a historical force.
08:06They didn't do that because they wanted to position an image and they wanted to commit that plan of those criminal tiny commands.
08:19They make us invisible and they only visualize the tiny mobilizations of the fascist sector.
08:30The truth is that Venezuela has institutions and no government of the world will come supported by these fascists to intend to make vulnerable the republican life of Venezuela.
08:48What the Supreme Court of Justice said, it will be law and it will be the same sentence and be sure that the majority of Venezuelans will abide and will respond to the law.
09:11And I will tell you more, everything will be better. And it will be a new victory of democracy, constitution and peace in front of those fascists who want to take over.