Venezuelan prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for opposition’s former presidential candidate

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Venezuelan authorities searched on Monday an arrest warrant for former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González, just over a month after election officials declared President Nicolás Maduro the winner of the disputed election that his opponents say he lost.

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The prosecutor seeking the decision in his request to a judge focused on terrorism-related crimes cites various charges against González, a former diplomatincluding conspiracy, falsification of documents and abuse of power.

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    Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia and incumbent President Nicolas Maduro next to protests against the latest election results. (Getty Images)

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    Government loyalists hold a poster of late former president Hugo Chavez outside the presidential palace during a rally in support of President Nicolas Maduro’s re-election a month after the presidential vote, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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    Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government protest in Caracas on July 29, 2024, a day after the Venezuelan presidential election. Protests erupted in parts of Caracas on Monday against the re-election victory claimed by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro but contested by the opposition and contested internationally, AFP journalists observed. (Raul Grove/AFP via Getty Images)

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Ruling party-loyal election authorities declared Maduro the winner of the July 28 presidential election. after the polls closed. They did not show detailed results to support their claim that they had offered in previous presidential elections. The lack of transparency has drawn international condemnation.

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However, the opposition managed to obtain more than 80% of the vote tallies, which are printed by all electronic voting machines, and said they show Maduro lost by a wide margin to González.