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Caracas. Nicolas Maduro said on Saturday that Edmundo González Urrutia, who confronted him in the last elections and accused him of fraud in his re-election, is “preparing to flee Venezuela.”
“Where is Edmundo González Urrutia hiding?!” the leftist leader shouted to a crowd gathered in front of the Miraflores presidential palace after marching through downtown Caracas.
“Didn’t he win that? Won? Maybe he won the lottery and can hide in the cave. He’s trapped in the cave. He’s preparing to flee Venezuela. Edmundo González Urrutia took the ticket and went to Miami,” he continued.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Maduro re-elected for a third six-year term with 52% of the vote, but the opposition, led by María Corina Machado, claims to have more than 80% copies of the electoral records proving González Urrutia was the winner.
Authorities have launched a criminal investigation into Machado and González Urrutia on charges including “inciting rebellion.”
The president in question has called for the two men to be jailed, accusing them of violence, although there are still no arrest warrants.
González Urrutia has been in hiding and has not been seen in public since July 30.
“Don’t be a coward!” snapped the president, repeatedly referring to himself by name as “the unclean one.”
Machado had earlier led a rally in Caracas attended by thousands of opponents, which was subsequently replicated in more than 300 cities around the world.
“She’s deflated, she’s failed, they don’t even want her to join the opposition,” Maduro said of the leader, whom he accuses of being behind an attempted coup.
Nearly three weeks after the election, the CNE has yet to release details of its table-by-table audit and claims the voting system was subject to a “cyber terrorist attack.”
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