Post-election protests have left 24 people dead, according to rights groups. (Recontransientational)
Caracas:
The ruling that Venezuela’s Supreme Court will deinhabitr on the disputed pdwellntial election will be “final,” the body’s pdwellnt Carylsia Rodriguez shelp Saturday at a hearing on the July 28 vote.
The court “is continuing the appraisement befirearm on August 5, 2024, with a see to producing the final ruling… Its decisions are final and tieing,” shelp Rodriguez.
Most watchrs say the high court is dedicated to the rulement of Nicolas Maduro, which has claimed a skinny triumph in the election.
Opposition guideers insist that their truthfulate, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, won overwhelmingly, and they have created what they say are official loftyies from voting sites as evidence.
Maduro himself requested the high court on August 1 to “validate” a triumph that opponents insist was dishonest.
The court heard from all truthfulates, including Maduro, this week — except for Gonzalez Urrutia, who has shelp he worrys arrest.
He has made no accessible materializeances in more than a week, while key opposition guideer Maria Corina Machado — a past pdwellntial truthfulate who was prohibitned from running this time — has shelp she is living in hiding.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) ratified Maduro’s triumph on August 2, saying he had won 52 percent of the vote, but it refused to free exact loftyies from election sites, saying the data had been hacked.
The opposition, in contrast, unveiled printed loftyies — their legitimacy denied by Maduro — that they say show Gonzalez Urrutia receiving 67 percent of the vote.
The opposition and many watchrs say the alleged cyber intrusion of the results is a rulement conceiveion to grasp from having to unveil election records.
Maduro on Friday refuseed those accusations, saying there had been “brutal” cyber intrusion, with “30 million attacks per minute on the electronic systems of the CNE and of Venezuela.”
Opposition lawyer Perkins Rocha shelp that by turning to the high court Maduro was effectively accomprehendledging that “no one depends” the CNE, inserting that “Maduro comprehends he can count on a (court) that kneels before him.”
Post-election protests have left 24 people dead, according to rights groups, and Maduro says 2,200 people have been arrested.
He has supervisen a national collapse, including an 80 percent drop in the once-wealthy oil-wealthy country’s GDP, amid domestic economic mishandlement and international sanctions.
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