Venezuela, Attorney General congratulated the Bolivarian people for holding peaceful elections

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*17 people arrested for carrying out violent acts against polling stations *A cyber-attack from North Macedonia tried to change election results *Lester Toledo, Leopoldo Lopez and Maria Corina Machado will be investigated for their involvement in these incidents

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00:00The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab,

00:02offered statements on the plans of the extreme right

00:06to undermine the results of these presidential elections.

00:09Let's see more details on this by our special envoy in Venezuela, Juno Sumer.

00:16The Attorney General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab,

00:20just made a public statement, a public press conference.

00:25He, first of all, congratulated the people of Venezuela

00:28for holding peaceful and institutional elections.

00:33He congratulated the elected president, Nicolás Maduro, for being re-elected.

00:39And he said this has happened despite years of inciting to violence,

00:45trying to cause coup d'état, acts of sabotage and sanctions

00:50led by the oppositional powers and foreign powers as well.

00:55The Attorney General then made declarations about incidents that occurred yesterday.

01:01He said that during the elections there have been some violent actions

01:06against electoral centers and voting machines,

01:09whereby 17 people were detained,

01:11some of them trying to burn in smaller incidents voting machines

01:17and trying to enter electoral centers illegally.

01:21More importantly, the Attorney General said that

01:24there has been an attack on the electoral system fundamentally,

01:29firstly by attacking the electricity system,

01:33and secondly and more importantly by attacking the informatic system,

01:38the data connection between voting centers

01:41and the center of it in the National Electoral Council.

01:44He said that a cyber attack has occurred against the system

01:49that was led from, he said, North Macedonia,

01:54a country in the Balkans in Europe.

01:56He said that this attempt tried to change the results

02:00that were received by the National Electoral Council,

02:03but it was defeated and it only led that the results came in later

02:11and were announced later on.

02:13The Attorney General said that investigation is going on

02:16to get the evidence of who is involved in this attack

02:21on the informatical system of the voting yesterday,

02:25but he also already mentioned that three names,

02:30Lester Toledo, a fugitive,

02:32Leopoldo Lopez and Maria Corina Machado,

02:35will be investigated for being involved in this attack

02:39on the election system of Venezuela.

02:42He concluded his words saying that these were minor incidents,

02:46the actions against the election centers.

02:50The ones I referred to, not the attack on the informatics center.

02:55And that the entire Venezuelan people

02:58has resisted the attempts of destabilization

03:02and has voted for peace and stability in the country.

03:05And the Attorney General concluded his words

03:08by celebrating the democracy and the celebration of democracy

03:14in yesterday's elections here in Venezuela.

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