CHRISTIAN BREAKING NEWS: Under Pressure from Allies, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Asks the Supreme Court to Audit the Presidential Election [#NicolasMaduro]
CHRISTIAN BREAKING NEWS: Under Pressure from Allies, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Asks the Supreme Court to Audit the Presidential Election [#NicolasMaduro]
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has asked the country’s Supreme Court to conduct an audit of the presidential election, after opposition leaders questioned his claim of victory and worldwide calls for detailed vote counts.
Maduro told reporters on Wednesday that the ruling party is also prepared to disclose all of the count sheets from Sunday’s election.
“I throw myself before justice,” he told reporters outside the Supreme Court’s headquarters in Caracas, adding that he is “willing to be summoned, questioned, and investigated.”
This is Maduro’s first concession to requests for greater transparency in the election.
However, the Supreme Court is tightly connected with his government; federal officials nominate the court’s judges, who are then ratified by the National Assembly, which is dominated by Maduro sympathizers.
Edmundo González, Maduro’s major rival, and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado claim they got more than two-thirds of the tally sheets generated by each electronic voting machine after polls closed.
They said that releasing the data on those tallies would reveal Maduro had lost the election.
Maduro claimed to reporters that there was a plan against his government and that the electoral system had been hacked, but he did not provide any details or evidence.
He is scheduled to speak to national and international media Wednesday afternoon, his first official press conference since the election.
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