Tensions between the Spanish government and the regime of Nicolas Maduro after the arrival in Spain of the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, Edmundo González Urrutia, erupted yesterday when the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela and brother of Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, Jorge Rodríguez, proposed The Venezuelan executive broke off relations with Spain, after the Congress of Deputies approved yesterday the recognition of González Urrutia as president-elect.
The first words of the government of Pedro Sánchez are of apparent calm. The spokesperson of the Executive, Pilar Alegría, assured on Thursday that the Spanish embassy in Venezuela is currently working “with absolute normality” and that the interest of the Spanish government is that nothing changes.
This institutional crisis between the two countries comes after the majority of Congress yesterday supported a non-law proposal (PNL) of the Popular Party urging the government to recognize the leader of the Venezuelan opposition – the only electoral records available grant him victory in the elections of July 28 – as the elected president of Venezuela.
Although it is not a binding initiative, since the ultimate responsibility lies with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who has already ruled out the possibility of recognizing González Urrutia outside the European Union, the president of the Venezuelan Parliament has presented a threat to the Spanish executive.
“Meet immediately and approve a resolution that the plenary approves peremptorily urging the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to immediately break off all diplomatic relations, all commercial relations and all consular relations with Spain,” he warned during an extraordinary session held in the House of Representatives. The National Assembly of Venezuela “will reject the interventionist actions” of the Spanish Parliament.
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