Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office announced this Wednesday an investigation into the “conspiracy” and other crimes against the website that the majority opposition claims to have published 83.5% of the protocols of the presidential elections of July 28, which, according to this anti-Chavista sector, indicates that the triumph of its standard-bearer, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiadespite the fact that the electoral body recognized him as the winner Nicolas Maduro.

According to a statement by Attorney General Tarek William Saab published in X, this “fake documents” with which the majority opposition, grouped in the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), intends to “usurp the functions of the National Electoral Council (CNE)”.

“It was decided to start crime investigation against the persons responsible for publishing and maintaining the said page, for crimes of usurpation of functions, forgery of state documents, calls for disobedience to laws, computer crimes, unification and conspiracy,” the prosecutor’s office said.

However, many Venezuelans who were members and witnesses of the meeting claim that they checked the results on this platform and confirmed the accuracy of the dataafter reading the QR code, compared to the codes shown by Jose Brito, a representative and candidate in the presidential elections who defines himself as “opposition”, during an interview on national television Globovision which they claim were falsified.

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According to the PUD portal, González Urrutia received 7,303,480 votes.and Maduro has 3,316,142, based on records the bloc says it obtained from election witnesses and polling station officials.

Meanwhile, the CNE in its second and so far final balance sheet, read last Friday, indicated that Maduro re-elected for third consecutive six-year term in power with 6,408,844 supporters, while González Urrutia collected 5,326,104, while 96.87% of the protocols were carefully studied, which the electoral body did not publish, as stated in the legal norms.

Supreme Court (TSJ) complies with Maduro’s request investigation to “confirm” the resultfor which he referred, among other things, to 10 former candidates, of whom González Urrutia refused to attend this Wednesday because he considered that the procedure did not comply with any process provided for by law and constituted a “violation of due process.”

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For his part, the president of the CNE, Chavista Elvis Amoroso, submitted audit reports on Monday about the presidential elections in TSJ, without having yet published them, as well as about the decision and the proclamation of Maduro as re-elected president, the state channel VTV reports.

The Carter Center, which participated as an observer, said the process “did not meet” international parameters and standards for election integrity, so “cannot be considered democratic” because, he said, the lack of disaggregated results “represents a serious violation of electoral principles.”EFE)