Venezuelan Prosecutor Summons Former Candidate Gonzalez for the Second Time
Former UPD presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, 2024.
August 26, 2024 Hour: 2:30 pm
He will have to answer for the publication of fake information regarding the results of the presidential elections.
On Monday, Venezuela’s Attorney General Tarek William Saab summoned former presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez for the second time to appear and testify in an investigation against him.
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He is required to appear on Tuesday to answer questions regarding the publication and maintenance of a website through which the far-right Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) attempted to promote narratives about an alleged electoral fraud, claiming that 83.5 percent of the voting records from the July 28 presidential election had been uploaded in its website.
The dissemination of false information occurred before the National Electoral Council (CNE) released the first official election results, in which President Nicolas Maduro won by a wide margin over Gonzalez.
As a result, the Venezuelan Attorney General’s Office summoned the PUD leader to testify in a case for the “alleged commission of crimes including usurpation of functions, forgery of public documents, incitement to disobey the law, computer crimes, association to commit a crime, and conspiracy.”
On Sunday, the far-right politician posted a video on social media criticizing the summons issued by Attorney General Saab but did not confirm whether he would attend the first hearing, which was scheduled for the morning of Monday. If found guilty, Gonzalez could face up to 16 years in prison.
teleSUR/ JF Source: Attorney General’s Office
