Maduro: The only one who should negotiate with Machado is the Attorney General

“As for negotiations, I think the only person who should negotiate with Machado in this country is the attorney general,” Maduro said in response to questions from reporters as he left the Supreme Court, where he had gone to confirm his victory.

“Let her surrender herself to the judiciary and be held accountable for the crimes she committed. This is the only negotiation that is really possible here,” he added.

“We are the majority… and we will continue to rule this country in peace and democracy,” Maduro continued.

With Maduro’s appearance, the Supreme Court has finished hearing the candidates and political leaders it summoned, and its president, Cariclia Rodriguez, said Monday that the court has “15 days, subject to extension, to issue its decision.”

The opposition presidential candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, who was summoned on Wednesday, did not go to court, saying on the “X” platform that “by going there he is risking his freedom, and what is more important than that, that is, the will of the people expressed during the vote on July 28.”

On Friday, August 2, the National Electoral Council certified Maduro’s victory with 52% of the votes, without announcing the exact number of votes and voting data at polling stations, saying that he had been “subjected to computer hacking.”

The opposition, for its part, launched a website on which it published copies of 84 percent of the votes cast, showing “its candidate, González Urrutia, winning by a large margin.”

But the government insists that “these copies are forged.”

The opposition and a number of observers believe that “the story of computer hacking was fabricated by the government to avoid having to publish data on polling stations.”

The unrest that followed Maduro’s victory resulted in the deaths of 24 people, according to human rights organizations.

For his part, Maduro announced the killing of two members of the National Guard and the arrest of more than 2,200 in the riots that swept the country the day after the recent presidential elections.

Source: “jamaicaobserver”