Maduro accuses opposition candidate of trying to flee Venezuela | News

The Venezuelan president accused Nicolas Maduro On Saturday, his opponent in the presidential election, Edmundo González Urrutia, said that he was seeking to “flee” Venezuela.

Maduro chanted at a rally in support of him outside the presidential palace in Caracas “Where is Edmundo González Urrutia hiding? Did he win? What did he win? Maybe a lottery,” he added. “He’s in a cave. He’s planning to escape Venezuela. Edmundo González Urrutia will take the money and go to Miami.”

The National Electoral Council certified Maduro's victory in early August with 52% of the vote without providing the exact vote count or polling station records, indicating that he had been hacked.

International skepticism

According to the opposition, which published the electoral records it obtained thanks to its auditors, its candidate, González Urrutia, won the elections with 67% of the votes, a result that Maduro rejected.

A large part of the international community questioned the official results after they were published by the National Election Commission.

The Venezuelan Public Prosecutor's Office announced that it had opened a criminal investigation against González Urrutia and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on several charges, including “usurpation of authority, dissemination of false information, incitement to disobey the laws, incitement to rebellion and criminal conspiracy.”

Maduro has repeatedly called for their imprisonment, blaming them for the post-election violence. González Urrutia has not been seen in public since July 30.