Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles, narrowly defeated at the polls, said Wednesday that the Supreme Court will decide “within hours” whether a new presidential vote should be held.
In an interview, Capriles warned that if the answer was no, he would bring his fight to “international bodies.”
“Within hours, we are going to have a decision on whether [the Supreme Court] accepts” the opposition’s bid to hold new elections, he said.
The Miranda state governor, who has not conceded the race which the National Electoral Board says Nicolas Maduro won by 1.49 points, said that if the high court takes on the legal case, it should last about three or four months.
But if it rejects the challenge, Capriles vowed to take his fight over the election’s fairness “to every body it can be heard in” including the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
“Now, the ball is in the government’s court. It is the one who has an illegitimacy crisis on its hands,” said Capriles, 40.
He called the government’s partial review of some results in the April 14 vote to replace the late Hugo Chavez, “a farse.”