Public Prosecutor’s Office announced summons for Edmundo González

This Friday, August 23, 2024, the head of the Public Ministry (MP), Tarek William Saab, announced a summons for the former presidential candidate, Edmundo González.

“In the next few hours, citizen Edmundo González Urrutia will be summoned by this Public Prosecutor’s Office based on the ongoing investigation so that he can give statements about his authorship (…) of the page that has usurped nothing more and nothing less than the powers that only correspond to the Electoral Power,” he said.

Public Prosecutor’s Office announced summons for Edmundo González

The official said that the MP has the authority to summon those responsible for crimes. “He will have to appear. We hope he does,” he said.

He recalled that at the beginning of August there had been reports of a criminal investigation against González and opposition leader María Corina Machado to determine their responsibility for multiple crimes.

In this context, he referred to the statement issued at that time, on the crimes of “Usurpation of Functions, Dissemination of False Information to Cause Anxiety, Incitement to Disobedience of the Law, Incitement to Insurrection, Criminal Association and Conspiracy.”

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