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*Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia is absent to the process *Edmundo Gonzalez disregards the mandate of the highest instance of the electoral contentions jurisdiction *Organization “Sumate” is behind the electoral consultancy *Postulants of former candidate Edmundo Gonzalez argue they don´t have documentation related to the elections *Postulants state that they did not participate in the process of transferring and safeguarding material *Postulants affirm not knowing who uploaded the information of the alleged tally sheets

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00:00Staying on Venezuela, the Electoral Chamber of the highest judicial body announcing its

00:03ruling on the first balance of the contentious electoral appeal that seeks to settle the

00:07controversy of the July 20th elections that the former far-right candidate Edmundo González

00:12Urrutia is in contempt of court.

00:14Let's report with Madeline García.

00:25The Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice gave the balance of the first phase

00:29of the expertise of the contentious appeal that concluded with the appearance of President

00:33Maduro before the Electoral Chamber, a process that will lead to know all the details of

00:38what happened in the July 28th presidential election.

00:45Forty-eight people were summoned, 38 from political parties, nine former candidates

00:50and the Venezuelan president.

00:51The big absentee was Edmundo González Urrutia, the ultra-right-winger who caused all the

00:56doubts about the electoral process.

01:01It is hereby stated for the record that the former candidate Edmundo González Urrutia

01:11did not attend and, therefore, did not comply with the summon order.

01:18Disregarding with his inaction the mandate of this, the highest instance of the electoral

01:25contentious jurisdiction of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

01:34But that's not all.

01:35Political parties that supported Edmundo González Urrutia said that they had access neither to

01:39the witnesses nor to the minutes, because behind all that electoral consultancy was

01:44the organization called CIMATI, created by Maria Karina Machado.

01:54All members of the Democratic United Platform Alliance and postulants of former candidate

02:01Edmundo González Urrutia did not submit any electoral material, arguing that they do not

02:07have any type of documentation related to this electoral process.

02:12In this sense, they stated that they do not have the minutes of the scrutiny of the witnesses,

02:19nor the list of witnesses, alluding, furthermore, that they did not participate in the process

02:25of transferring and safeguarding any material.

02:30They also pointed out that the organization CIMATI is part of the technical advisory team

02:37of the Democratic Unitary Platform Alliance, and, in turn, they did not know who uploaded

02:46the information of the alleged dolly cheats in the web page www.resultadospresidencialesvenezuela2024.com.

03:02The electoral chamber will initiate the second phase of the expert analysis of all the minutes

03:08and electoral material consigned.

03:10At the end of the process, they will issue a final sentence, which must be obeyed.

Venezuela, Electoral Chamber of the SCJ gives balance of the first phase of contentious appeal

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