Edmundo González, elected president of Venezuela according to all known electoral records and as admitted by Venezuelan diplomacy European Unionbut not the government of Pedro Sanchezis already in Madrid. His plane arrived early this Sunday afternoon at the air base of Torrejon of Ardozwhere twenty Venezuelans with flags of their country were waiting to welcome him. OKDIARIO was with them.
“It is not easy to separate from the country or from one’s family, but for this we are here to give you all the encouragement. These are the strategies we must follow to eliminate (from power) “Nicolas Maduro”an exiled Venezuelan told the newspaper.
Another of her compatriots explains that her presence there, in front of the Torrejón base, had the objective of ““Welcome to our president”. “Continue building what will be Venezuela, a free Venezuela. As everyone knows Maria Corina Machado She is the leader, as long as she is there, Edmundo will play an excellent role here. to unite the international community around a single project of freedom,” he said.
“We are here in solidarity with all our Venezuelan brothers, out of patriotism, out of conviction and because we are all witnesses of what is happening in our country. The situation there is very difficult.“It’s very complicated,” a Venezuelan resident in Madrid told OKDIARIO.
Asylum in Spain
Edmundo González, president-elect of Venezuela, and his wife have already arrived in Spain. The Spanish Air Force plane in which they were traveling landed this Sunday at 3:52 p.m. at the Torrejón military airport (Madrid). Also on board the plane are the Secretary of State for Foreign and Global Affairs, Diego Martinez Belio.
Edmundo Gonzalezleader of the largest coalition opposed to Chavism, was forced into exile after suffering repression from the dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro after the electoral coup of July 28.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement informing of the arrival in Spain of González, who “was received by the Secretary of State for Latin America and Spanish in the World, Susana Sumelzo.”
“The asylum application procedures will now begin, the resolution of which will be favourable in the interest of Spain’s commitment to the political rights and physical integrity of all Venezuelans, especially political leaders,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, he was the one who reported this morning of the trip, which was made, according to the minister, at the request of Edmundo González himself. “The Spanish government is committed to the political rights and physical integrity of all Venezuelans,” he said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also confirmed in a statement that Edmundo González had taken off from Caracas for Spain in a Spanish Air Force plane, since “the Spanish government has put in place the diplomatic and material means necessary for its transfer, carried out at its request.”
Spain denies any agreement with the Chavista regime government for this trip, but the executive vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguezreported this Saturday that the leader of the largest opposition coalition, Edmundo González Urrutia, had left Venezuela with a safe conduct granted “for the sake of tranquility and political peace”, after having spent “several days” as a refugee in the Spanish embassy, the country where he will live in exile. Likewise, diplomatic sources affirm that the former Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero played a key role in the negotiations on exile, in the service of Chavismo.
“Today September 7th left the country “Opponent Edmundo González Urrutia, who voluntarily took refuge for several days in the embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Caracas, has asked the government to process political asylum,” the official wrote on her Instagram account.
Opposition leader Edmundo Rodriguez has declared himself the winner of Venezuela’s July presidential elections following a coup by Nicolas Maduro and carried out by the National Electoral Council (CNE), with results that neither the European Union, nor the United States, nor the main democracies of South America recognize.
