Venezuela’s attorney general, Chavista Tarek William Saab, said the Public Ministry will close the criminal investigation against the main opposition candidate in the last presidential election, Edmundo González, after he left the country due to judicial persecution by Chavismo.
In an interview with CNN en Español, Saab said that this week he will meet with the opposition leader’s lawyer, José Vicente Haro, to discuss the terms under which the investigation will be concluded – highlighting that the objective from the beginning was to force González’s departure from the country.
“With the judicial representative of González Urrutia, in the coming days we will define the forms, methods, time and place of how this case will, in some way, be judicially closed in accordance with the terms of that conversation that we are going to have, the Constitution itself and Venezuelan laws, and we will do everything that needs to be done, always in strict compliance with international human rights law,” Saab said in the interview.
On Monday of last week (2), the country’s Justice Department, at the request of the MP, issued an arrest warrant against González.
He had been summoned three times by the Venezuelan Attorney General’s Office to testify in an investigation into who was responsible for an opposition website that made copies of the voting records for the July 28 presidential election available.
These documents prove that González won the election, contrary to the official result of the Chavista National Electoral Council (CNE) ratified by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), also controlled by the Nicolás Maduro regime, which proclaimed the winner.
González did not respond to any of the summonses and so the Public Prosecutor’s Office requested his arrest, which was promptly granted by the courts. Last weekend, the opposition leader left Venezuela and went to Spain.
According to information from the website Efecto Cocuyo, in a post on X this Monday, González once again commented on his departure – he had already made statements to that effect on Sunday (8).
“I made this decision thinking about Venezuela and that our destiny as a country cannot, should not, be one of a conflict of pain and suffering,” said the opposition leader in the post, in which he said that the release of political prisoners continues to be his “greatest priority” and “an inalienable demand.”
In the message, González thanked opposition leader María Corina Machado, Spain for welcoming him, and the Netherlands, in whose embassy he took refuge after the presidential election.
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