Venezuelan prosecutor seeks #arrest of former #Maduro #opponent who observers say won presidency
A Venezuelan judge has ordered the arrest of opposition candidate #Edmundo #González, who the United States and other countries say
️ clearly beat the country’s authoritarian president, #Nicolás #Maduro, in the July 28 presidential election.
The country’s attorney general filed an arrest warrant Monday against González, a 75-year-old former diplomat, as part of an investigation into the opposition’s publication of vote tally sheets showing their candidate won more than twice as many votes as Maduro.
The opposition published the receipts from more than 23,000 voting machines days after Venezuela’s electoral council claimed a victory by Maduro.
Several independent reviews of the data, including by The Washington Post, suggest Maduro likely lost the election by a landslide.
The electoral council, which is controlled by the autocrat, has not released official precinct-level results from the election, despite repeated calls from world leaders.
Instead, Maduro’s government has cracked down against the opposition, with a wave of arrests that has forced many opposition leaders into hiding.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/02/venezuela-election-gonzalez-arrest-warrant/