Delcy RodriguezVice President of the Chavista dictatorship of Venezuela, and her brother Jorge RodriguezPresident of the National Assembly, forced Edmundo González, president-elect of Venezuela, to sign a document in which he recognized the victory of Nicolas Maduro in the elections and renounced his claims to the presidency of the country. The events took place in the house of the Spanish ambassador, Ramon Santosinside the Spanish embassy in Caracas, where Delcy Rodriguez Access is prohibited as this is the case on Spanish soil.
The regime, through its official press agency, Venezuela News, published the images in which González appeared signing the document with Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez at the ambassador’s residence. The publication of these images is intended to sow doubt and humiliate the winner of the elections.
Signing the document was a condition for González to travel to Spain to seek political asylum. It was Venezuela’s president-elect who revealed on Wednesday that he had been coerced and threatened to sign the document. “Either I signed or I suffered the consequences,” González said in a video on his social networks.
Jorge Rodríguez himself responded this Wednesday to González’s accusations. The president of the Venezuelan Assembly has accused the winner of the elections of having revealed the coercion. “I have other evidence that indicates the opposite, do not force me to show them, because I am willing to do so,” Rodríguez said. At the same time, he showed the images in which González appears sign the documents with Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez at the residence of the Spanish ambassador. The president of the National Assembly assured that he was able to record the conversations he had with González and threatened the opponent to reveal them if he did not deny it. accusations of coercion.
Edmundo González published a video on Wednesday afternoon in which he denounced having been forced to sign the document, but also assured that he was not renouncing the “mandate” that “millions of Venezuelans” had entrusted to him. “Was very tense hours of coercion, blackmail and pressure“In those moments, I thought that I could be more useful free than locked up and unable to carry out the tasks entrusted to me by the sovereign,” said the winner of the July 28 elections to explain the reasons for his departure from the country to Spain. .to request asylum.
González criticized the pressure from Chavismo to sign documents that would have no value and that he claims not to recognize: “A document produced under duress.” is tainted with absolute nullity for serious lack of consent. The opponent also shared with all Venezuelans who support him that he does not give up and that he will continue to fight for change in Venezuela. “As a president elected by millions and millions of Venezuelans who voted for change, democracy and peace, they are not going to silence me. I will never betray them. This is known to everyone I have spoken to to date.
Edmundo González arrived in Spain last Sunday, September 8, after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs negotiated his departure to grant him political asylum in Spanish territory. The Venezuelan president had been hiding from regime forces since the elections, first in the Dutch embassy in Caracas and then in the residence of the Spanish ambassador. The Venezuelan prosecutor’s office issued an opinion arrest warrant against González after refusing to appear three times to explain the publication of electoral records that gave victory to the opposition in the elections, denying the election results. National Electoral Council (CNE).
The Spanish Congress of Deputies voted last week in favor of a PP proposal asking Pedro Sánchez’s government to recognize Edmundo González as president-elect. The result of the vote sparked a wave of indignation among Venezuelan chavismo, which threatened to break off diplomatic relations with Spain.
