TSJ formally summons 10 presidential candidates

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Venezuela’s Supreme Court (TSJ) summoned on Tuesday 10 former presidential candidates who participated in the July 28 election to advance the court’s procedure for “certification” of the official results of the election, which gave victory to Nicolás Maduro, questioned both at home and abroad.

The president of the TSJ, Chavista Caryslia Rodríguez, assured that the former candidates had been “formally summoned” and that they must deal with the matter in person, confirming that failure to appear “will have the consequences provided by the law for the systems”, without specifying which systems.

According to the agenda set by the Supreme Court’s Electoral College, Edmundo González Urrutia, the standard-bearer of the main anti-Chavez coalition, the Democratic Unity Platform (PUD), claimed to have won the election by a large margin, and to publish the voting records that “83” must be present this Wednesday to support this claim.

Then, later the same day, José Brito and Luis Eduardo Martínez were summoned, who had participated in the election with the support of the Justice Organization, whose traditional leaders supported González Urrutia and accused the former candidates of being collaborators of Chavismo.

Likewise, on Thursday, former candidates Daniel Ceballos, Javier Bertucci, Claudio Fermín and Antonio Ecari must be present, while on Friday Enrique Márquez – the only one close to the UDF -, Benjamin Rausio and Maduro will do the same, and he will be the last candidate to attend these appointments, but the dynamics of their execution are not clear.

The TSJ also summoned representatives of 38 political parties supporting 10 contenders, all to “deliver electoral instruments related to the July 28 process,” the voting records of which have not yet been published by the National Electoral Council (CNE), in violation of established legal provisions.

According to state television Venezuela TV, CNE President Chavista Elvis Amoroso submitted on Monday to the TSJ the minutes of the presidential review meeting, as well as the minutes of the meeting that ruled and declared President Maduro re-elected, but they have not yet been made public.

The head of the TSJ said the Supreme Court will begin “expert proceedings for the commission of materials” within a maximum of 15 days, a period that can be extended without specifying a deadline, while requests in and outside the court increase. The country asked the CNE to publish the minutes of the meeting to dispel doubts about the announced election results.