Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab. Photo: EFE.
The attorney general of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, stated in an interview with the US media outlet CNN that the only electoral authority in Venezuela is the National Electoral Council (CNE), and neither MarĂa Corina Machado’s NGO SĂşmate nor the web page created by the Venezuelan far-right to spread fake election results has any electoral power.
Attorney General Saab made this comment in response to CNN journalist Fernando del RincĂłn’s question, “Where are the voting records?” during an interview on Wednesday, September 11.
Saab explained that those who have the last word on the elections in Venezuela are the judiciary and the electoral authority. The Supreme Court, using research carried out by experts, verified that the vote counts given by the National Electoral Council were correct, and the CNE announced the results that proclaimed Nicolás Maduro as re-elected president.
“Where are the voting records? They said SĂşmate has them, for God’s sake. SĂşmate is a private company that has existed since 2001 to carry out electoral frauds, such as in the 2023 [opposition] primaries,” Saab said in response to Fernando del RincĂłn’s question.
Del RincĂłn visibly lost control several times during the program, showing his lack of objectivity as a journalist.
Human rights in Venezuela
Referring to the subject of human rights in Venezuela amid the postelectoral violence, the attorney general detailed that 45 days after those unfortunate events, his office has not received a single complaint against any security corps for police malpractice. He accused the far-right of causing 27 deaths through armed criminal groups.
He also pointed out the weaponization of human rights to attack Venezuela, while in Gaza, the zionist state has killed over 40,000 innocent people and the NGOs say nothing, to which Del Rincón replied, “I am not interested in Gaza.”
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On September 5, Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced that his office is preparing a report on everything related to the detentions from the postelectoral violence. The report will be presented to the United Nations at the end of the year to show “who are the real violators of human rights.”
Saab said this in reference to an attempt to create a narrative that the Venezuelan Public Ministry is violating due process and carrying out arbitrary detentions.
“We are making a whole report. In due time, we will present it to the UN, which could be at the end of this year, on how all this happened in Venezuela and who are the real perpetrators of the human rights violations,” he told the CNN journalist.
He pointed out that there are video recordings and other evidence implicating the detainees, among them those from Anzoátegui state who set fire to the mayor’s office in Puerto La Cruz.
“The mayor’s office was one of the most besieged buildings, and an individual was detained for having incited hatred and instigation for the arson of public institutions,” Saab said. “Also, remember that there was a prosecutor who did not want to charge the perpetrators, claiming that there were no charges to convict them on, but the charges are there in the video when they instigated the arson of the mayor’s office. The prosecutor was arrested and prosecuted.”
Saab commented that the situation seems to be a theater of the absurd. Still, it is a very delicate issue to prove that the crimes were committed.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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