The Public Ministry (Prosecutor’s Office) of Venezuela reported this Friday that will quote “in the next few hours” to the presidential candidate of the majority opposition, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiadue to a criminal investigation against him, due to the alleged commission of crimes associated with the complaint of electoral fraud made by the anti-Chavez movement.

The Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, announced that he will announce, “in time, manner and place”the details of this summons, with which they hope that the standard-bearer of the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) will speak about the website where electoral records were published that, according to the anti-Chavez movement, confirm his victory in the elections of July 28.

“He must come to this summons to speak, in a consequential and successive manner, of his responsibility before, during and after July 28, for his contumacy, his disobedience to the authorities,” said the prosecutor in a speech broadcast by the state channel VTV. Saab hopes that the opposition “makes statements about his authorship” in the publication of these data, which – he stressed – “has usurped” a task “that only corresponds” to the National Electoral Council (CNE)which has not yet published the disaggregated results confirming Nicolás Maduro’s announced victory at the polls.

“He doesn’t show his face, we don’t know where he is”the prosecutor commented, referring to González Urrutia’s decision to remain “in hiding” in the face of threats from the Chavistas, who have called for jail time for him and his main supporter, María Corina Machado. He considered that the anti-Chavez man “is in hiding” due to “his extreme cowardice, terror and fear of justice” but, he insisted, “he will have to face the Public Prosecutor’s Office.”

The prosecutor’s announcement comes a day after the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) confirmed Maduro’s victory, which has been rejected by numerous countries that are asking the Venezuelan authorities to publish the detailed election results, as established in the schedule. Among the crimes mentioned by the Prosecutor’s Office in the investigation against González Urrutia are: usurpation, conspiracy and association to commit a crime.