Chavista leader Diosdado Cabello threatened on Tuesday members of the majority opposition in Venezuela, including the sector’s presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia and his supporter María Corina Machado, that they were going to “screw them up” after both politicians rejected the victory granted by the electoral body to Nicolás Maduro in Sunday’s presidential election.

At a parliamentary session, the deputy warned that Machado and González Urrutia, in addition to anti-Chavistas Leopoldo López, Julio Borges, Carlos Vecchio, Henrique Capriles, Antonio Ledezma, Henry Ramos Allup and Carlos Ocáriza, “will be accused before the competent authorities by There will be more crime and no one will benefit.”

“We are not going to stop, and if they want to provoke us, I will tell them something, we will fall into provocation, but we will screw them, we will screw them,” insisted Cabello, first vice president of the ruling United Socialist Party (UPSUV), who assured that they were going to “give them lessons” and they were going to “catch them.”

The official also called González Urrutia a “miserable old man” and an “unprincipled rat” whom he accused of being a “CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) agent” and of being “used to killing people in El Salvador” without providing any evidence.

Meanwhile, González Urrutia and Machado took part in a mass event in Caracas, where they insisted that they would not give in to Chavismo’s provocations, since their mission is to defend the votes that citizens cast last Sunday, when, as they claim, the opponent won with an “overwhelming” majority, thus rejecting the CNE data that awarded the victory to Maduro.

For his part, the president of the parliament, Chavista Jorge Rodríguez, a few minutes before Cabello’s appearance, demanded prison terms for González Urrutia and Machado, who, according to him, traveled around the country’s cities during the election campaign to “plant their violent cells, deposit money and distribute drugs,” although he did not provide any evidence for these accusations.

Since Monday, numerous protests have taken place in Caracas and across much of the country against the results presented by the CNE. In some cases, these actions have been met with police and military repression.

Most of the opposition calls these demonstrations “spontaneous and legitimate manifestations,” while the government calls them “criminals” and “terrorists,” while condemning the coup d’état, “once again fabricated” by “right-wing extremist fascist factors.”

At least six people were killed and 84 injured, according to NGOs, and prosecutors say 749 arrests have been made. EFE