Venezuelan authorities on Monday sought an arrest warrant for former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, just over a month after electoral authorities declared President Nicolas Maduro the winner of a disputed election that the opposition claims he lost.
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Prosecutors, seeking the warrant from a judge who specializes in terrorism-related crimes, have accused the former diplomat of a range of offences, including conspiracy, forgery and usurpation of power.
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Election officials loyal to the ruling party announced hours after polls closed that Maduro had won the July 28 presidential election, without providing detailed results to back up their claim, as they have done in previous presidential elections, and the lack of transparency has drawn international condemnation.
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But the opposition claims to have obtained more than 80% of the vote tally printed by all electronic voting machines, showing that Maduro lost by a landslide to Gonzalez.
