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CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) – President Nicolas Maduro appeared before Venezuela’s Supreme Court on Friday to ask the country’s top judicial body to approve his disputed re-election and rule out the possibility of negotiations with opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.
In an interview with AFP, which is still questioning the results of the July 28 election, he responded to Machado’s offer of “guarantees and incentives” for a “negotiated transition” of power that would allow him to leave office.
South American countries have been Political crisis Since electoral authorities declared Maduro the winner of last month’s election, the decision has been questioned both at home and abroad.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) has yet to release detailed results of the vote, while the opposition has released copies of 84% of ballots showing an easy win for its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia. The government says the results are falsified.
The Supreme Court — widely seen as allied with Maduro — subpoenaed all presidential candidates, but González Urrutia refused to appear.
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Maduro did so on Friday, after which he issued a warning to Machado.
“The only person in this country who needs to negotiate with Machado is the prosecutor,” Maduro said after the hearing.
“She should surrender to the court and answer for the crimes she committed by questioning the election results.”
She is currently in hiding because she fears for her safety.
Protests sparked by the disputed election have left at least 24 people dead and more than 2,000 arrested, according to human rights groups.
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