Gonzalez Urrutia had changed Machado on the poll on the final minute after she was prevented from operating by establishments loyal to Maduro.
Venezuela’s regime-loyal CNE electoral authority declared Maduro the winner of the July 28 elections, however the opposition cried foul and far of the international community has refused to accept the result without seeing a detailed vote breakdown, which has not been forthcoming.
Authorities issued an arrest warrant for Gonzalez Urrutia, who Maduro has mentioned belongs behind bars together with Machado. She stays in hiding, save for main a handful of anti-Maduro protests since the disputed vote.
Gonzalez Urrutia left Venezuela Sunday after ignoring three successive summons to seem earlier than prosecutors, arguing that doing so risked his freedom.
Machado mentioned on X that “the rising threats, subpoenas, arrest warrants and even makes an attempt at blackmail and coercion in opposition to (Gonzalez Urrutia) present that the regime has no scruples or limits in its obsession to silence him and attempt to carry him down.”
She added that “confronted with this brutal actuality, it’s obligatory for our trigger to protect his freedom, his integrity and his life”.
