Enrique Márquez rejects TSJ ruling on Maduro’s re-election

Former presidential candidate Enrique Márquez This Monday he criticized the refusal of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela to review a ruling that validated the re-election of Nicolás Maduro denounced as a fraud by the opposition, and announced a new legal appeal.

“No matter how many blows we take along the way, we are going to insist,” Márquez told the press. “We can legally abide by it, because there is no other option, but we do not accept the decision,” he added.

The Constitutional Chamber of the TSJ declared on Friday “inadmissible” an appeal filed by the opposition politician, who asked to annul a previous ruling by the Electoral Chamber of the highest court that endorsed Maduro’s victory in the July 28 elections.

Márquez, also a former director of the National Electoral Council for the opposition, presented the appeal along with twenty dissident Chavistas, considering that the ruling that ratified Maduro’s victory has “unconstitutionality defects.”

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Former presidential candidate Enrique Márquez before the ruling issued by the Constitutional Chamber of the TSJ: “We are not going to get tired of defending the rights of Venezuelans enshrined in the Constitution.” pic.twitter.com/gl65Uaane8

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Márquez will present an amnesty proposal to free political prisoners

The opposition published on a website copies of electoral records with which claims the victory of the candidate Edmundo González Urrutiaexiled in Spain after an arrest warrant against him.

The National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed Maduro as the winner for a third consecutive six-year term (2025-2031), without publishing a detailed scrutiny, alleging that its system was the target of a cyber attack.

“This appeal aims to clarify a series of dark points in the sentence,” said Márquez. «There is an omission of evidence (…). Neither the Electoral Chamber nor the Constitutional Chamber could decide on this issue without counting the votes contained in the electoral ballot boxes (…). “They acted crazy.”

The Constitutional Chamber of the TSJ “refused to act,” questions the former candidate. “What he did was repeat and support the decision of the Electoral Chamber without evaluating it,” he added, which he considers “deepens” the political crisis.

Enrique Márquez also announced that he will present before Parliament, controlled by the ruling Chavismo, an amnesty proposal to free political prisoners.

More than 2,400 people were arrested during protests after Maduro’s proclamation, which left 27 dead, 2 of them soldiers. The authorities accuse those arrested of being “terrorists.”