MEP Esteban González Pons (PP) assured that the European Parliament’s motion recognizing Edmundo González as the legitimate president of Venezuela was “signed only by the Meloni group and the Popular Group” and not by Vox. “We could not include the Vox group and we could not include the liberals or the socialists,” said González Pons, who is also vice-president of the European Parliament. These statements, as Vox MEP Hermann Tertsch explains to OKDIARIO, do not correspond to reality, since Vox actually voted for it and was part of the proposal. Tertsch goes further and recalls that the EPP candidate and President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen“He hasn’t said a word about Venezuela since the elections, nor has he congratulated Edmundo González Urrutia, nor condemned the arrests and deaths of Maduro’s opponents.”
In addition, Tertsch submitted on behalf of Patriots for Europe (PfE) the joint motion for a resolution that implied the recognition of Edmundo González as president of Venezuela. The problem – explains Tertsch – comes from the fact that the PP would have liked this resolution to be supported by the socialists, greens and liberals of Renew, “who are not liberals but socialists who always vote with the left” but they are ashamed to vote with the left because they believe that “the only right is them”.
“Pons knew perfectly well that Vox had supported this motion. What is happening is that they are terrified by what happened. What happened is that there was a majority on the right (Meloni’s ECR, Patriots for Europe…) that was posted. They wanted to water down the resolution to see if Renew would arrive – Macron’s liberals – with whom the PP feels more comfortable. So, until the last moment, they tried to find someone who would approach them. But since the socialists are bound by their commitments to Maduro’s criminal dictatorship, they did not get the support they were really looking for,” he explains.
Tertsch also points the finger at EPP leader Ursula von der Leyen, who has not said a word about Venezuela after Maduro’s fraud. “It’s a very, very curious thing. The PP wants to arrogate to itself a resolution that has its own things, but also Vox, de Meloni and others. It was Vox that took the lead, even winning the support of the Alternative for Germany, the second current political force in that country. But the PP prefers to create a cordon sanitaire for all those forces that are to its right and without which this resolution would not have seen the light of day.
