The European Parliament will also debate the situation in VenezuelaIn fact, from the PP, they assure that the popular group of the European Parliament is already preparing a proposal similar to the one that was approved in the Congress and with which they intend that Strasbourg also recognizes Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner of the elections and legitimate president of Venezuela.
PP sources confirmed to LaSexta that the European People’s Party will present a resolution proposal similar to the one approved by the Spanish lower house.
This Wednesday, Genoa managed to gather the necessary support for the Congress of Deputies to consider the non-law proposal which is considering recognizing Venezuelan opponent Edmundo González as the elected president of the Latin American country.
He did so thanks to the “yes” of his 137 deputies, as well as that of the 33 from Vox, the Popular Union of Navarro (UPN), another from the Canarian Coalition (CC) and the five from the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV). A majority of 177 deputies, and a particular abstention, that of the former Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos, to whom the “Koldo case” brought him to the Mixed Group of the Lower House.
After having managed to gather the necessary support for the Congress of Deputies to consider the illegal proposal that envisages recognizing the Venezuelan opponent Edmundo González as the elected president of the Latin American country, the PP now intends to take it to Europe.
As LaSexta has learned, the European People’s Party (EPP) will include this Thursday the appearance before the International Criminal Courteven though it will be next Tuesday when the resolution will be debated in the European Parliament (EP). An initiative very similar to the one they brought to the Congress, but at the Community level.
Government demands ‘responsibility’ over diplomatic rupture threatened by Venezuela
While The Popular Party (PP) celebrates its victory at the Congress of Deputies this Wednesday and warns the regime of Nicolas Maduro to take him to the International Criminal Court thanks to its majority in the European Parliament (EP), after its Lower House proposed “break all relationships” With Spain, the government confirms that it is only a threat, calls for caution, as well as alignment with the position of the European Union (EU).
In fact, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, assured this Thursday morning that “the embassy in Venezuela [en Caracas] works with absolute normality.” His counterpart in the Education portfolio and spokesperson for the Executive, Pilar Alegría, also called for tranquility, stressing that the “interest” of the government “will always be to work to maintain the better relationships with the Venezuelan people.”
Immediately afterwards, criticism was leveled at the opposition. He did so by stressing that while protecting the rights of Venezuelans, “others use their people to attack the Spanish government”Some statements clearly refer to the popular, against whom the PSOE spokesperson in the Congress of Deputies, Patxi López, did not hesitate to attack directly.
