CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro said he asked the country’s Supreme Court to conduct an audit of the presidential election, after opposition leaders disputed his claim of victory and amid international calls to release detailed vote counts.
Maduro told reporters Wednesday that the ruling party is also ready to show the totality of the tally sheets from Sunday’s election.
“I throw myself before justice,” he said to reporters outside the Supreme Court’s headquarters in Caracas, adding that he is “willing to be summoned, questioned, investigated.”
Maduro’s main challenger, Edmundo González, and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, say they obtained more than two-thirds of the tally sheets that each electronic voting machine printed after polls closed. They said the release of the data on those tallies would prove Maduro lost the election.
Maduro insisted to reporters that there had…