Former presidential candidate José Brito of the Venezuela First Party offered statements to press after he attended to summon from the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) for a hearing for the July 28th elections investigative process. teleSUR
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00:00We have to leave aside to appealing to the judicial area to justify the unjustified.
00:10I repeat to the country today, tomorrow, and we will be repeating it, it's absolutely irresponsible
00:16with the peace of the country, with the Venezuelan people, that Edmundo Gonzalez has not arrived,
00:22has not attended this hearing, and this hearing was very important and very clarifying.
00:28I would like to say also that not attending these two hearings, Edmundo Gonzalez is actually
00:35getting involved in a contempt of court, and the contempt can bring about that the public
00:45office of the Supreme Court of Justice can order a conduction request.
00:51That doesn't mean that he's going to go to jail, but he can just order the public
00:57force to take him and to bring it here to clarify the issues that are being clarified
01:05and investigated.
01:06There is a contempt of court, which is very big, and which can entail a mandate by the
01:14jury against Edmundo Gonzalez, which is also very irresponsible with the country, a person
01:21that issues a communique, but also goes into hiding.
01:25This is irresponsible for a country that is claiming precisely to be able to resolve,
01:30to be able to present the elements, and which now is being denied that possibility to the
01:35Venezuelan men and women to resolve this situation for the peaceful means, for the rationality,
01:41and we have to denounce this as such.
01:43We have appealed to the first hearing and summon, and we just came today, and we will
01:49come to all the summons, all the subpoenas, in order to guarantee the peace in the country
01:54and that to reestablish the order in Venezuela and to act with responsibility with the country,
02:02a country that is claiming because they want changes, they want well-being, they want progress,
02:09but it seems like, and I repeat, that the purpose, the spirit and the purpose, the intention
02:15of some people that have participated in this process has never been, from a point of view
02:20of the electoral area, but is unfortunately in the insurrectional area.
02:26They talk about that they won on the 28th of July, they don't present any evidence,
02:32none of the political organizations have presented any evidence, but they don't talk about the
02:36verification, they always use this course, transition.
02:41This looks like a language associated with a scenario, an insurrectional context to an electoral context.
02:51If we want to resolve the problem here, if we want to play clean, we have to come here.
02:59The necessary is to come here, to see our faces, and really that he can just show the
03:09documents.
03:10If he doesn't do it, he's just giving the back to the Venezuelan.
03:15It's a coward situation, a coward position in the country.
03:19It's also to let himself, it's to generate a frustration, a new frustration to a part
03:27of the Venezuelan people that supported that option and that really is acting on the country.
03:38That is why I say, and I keep it, I would like to be wrong, I would like to be wrong
03:43myself, but unfortunately, I repeat, the plan was never electoral, the plan unfortunately
03:50was profoundly insurrectional.
03:54We are live to Caracas, Venezuela, where former electoral candidate José Brito from the Venezuelan
03:59First Movement offers statements to the press from the chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
04:04amid the hearings to clarify the transparency of the elections.
04:08The candidate condemned far-right candidate Edmundo García's failure to appear before
04:13court and urged all former candidates to respect peace and democracy in the country.
04:18This is all for the moment, stay tuned with From the South.