The electoral candidates who participated in the presidential elections in Venezuela must go today to the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to begin the investigation process and certify the results of 28 July.
This step was taken in response to the decision adopted the day before by the TSJ, which decided to take up the electoral appeal filed by President Nicolás Maduro last Wednesday before that body.
The head of Venezuela’s highest judicial body, Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez, presented the ruling in which she summoned the candidates who participated in the presidential elections of 28 July for tomorrow (today).
Those summoned are Nicolás Maduro, Luis Martínez, Edmundo González, Daniel Ceballos, Antonio Ecarri, Benjamín Rausseo, Enrique Márquez, José Brito, Javier Bertuchi, and Claudio Fermín.
All are due to appear this Friday at 14:00 local time at the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, Rodríguez said.
With this step, «the process of investigation and verification is admitted, filed and initiated to certify in an unrestricted manner the results of the electoral process carried out on 28 July», he stressed.
The Electoral Chamber of the TSJ of the Bolivarian Republic assumed its commitment to peace and democracy, in pursuit of the constitutional order of the Republic, in order to guarantee the will of the voters and to provide them with «effective and timely judicial protection».
The re-elected president went to the highest judicial body in the country on Wednesday to present an appeal to the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice with the aim of clarifying and stopping the attacks suffered by the country.
Maduro requested the activation of an electoral dispute and expressed his willingness to be summoned, questioned and investigated in all its parts, by this body as the presidential candidate who won the elections.
He said that the appeal for the country’s peace is contained in the Magna Carta, in the Organic Law of Electoral Processes and the Organic Law of the TSJ, so that this attack on the electoral process and attempted coup d’état can be resolved.
The president denounced the use of the electoral process of 28 July, in which he won with 51.20 per cent of the votes, and denounced that «everything that needs to be clarified about these attacks and the process should be clarified».
The head of state said that Venezuela has strong institutions and turned to the Electoral Chamber in the face of the psychological warfare in networks and the media, with the aim that the TSJ, in its power, summons all the institutions of the branches of state.
Also to all registered presidential candidates, to the 38 parties and to «completely check» the attacks on polling stations, the burnt and destroyed headquarters of the National Electoral Council and the cyber attack on the latter that affected the transmission of data.