Venezuelan court grants arrest warrant for Maduros opposition rival [Video]

A Venezuelan court granted an arrest warrant Monday for opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who claims to have rightfully won July elections that authorities awarded to incumbent Nicolas Maduro.

The court, the prosecutor’s office said on Instagram, had granted its request for a warrant for Gonzalez Urrutia for “serious crimes.”

The office had earlier published its request to the court on social media, in which it listed the alleged crimes that stem from the opposition’s insistence that Maduro and his allies stole the July 28 presidential vote.

Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE), most of whose members are friendly to 61-year-old Maduro, declared him reelected to a third six-year term — an outcome disputed by the opposition and much of the international community.

The United States, the European Union and several Latin American countries have refused to recognize the result without seeing detailed voting results.

The CNE has said it …