Congress approved on Wednesday an initiative promoted by the PP to recognize the opposition Edmundo González Urrutia as the elected president of Venezuela. The illegal proposal, which has no practical effect, was approved thanks to the votes of the PP, Vox, PNV, UPN and the Canarian Coalition, a total of 177 supporters. Former socialist minister José Luis Ábalos abstained.
The text urges the Executive to recognize González Urrutia as the “legitimate winner of the presidential elections” of July 28. “This recognition is based on the repeated refusal of the Venezuelan electoral authorities to publish the results in a timely manner, on the publication by the opposition of 83.5% of the verifiable records demonstrating a categorical electoral result and on the official statements of international institutions and organizations such as the Carter Center, the United Nations and the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security,” the non-legal proposal states.
The initiative was able to come to fruition thanks to the support of the PNV, which distanced itself on this issue from the position of the majority of the investiture bloc. The debate took place yesterday in Congress while hundreds of protesters mobilized at the doors of the Chamber to demand that the government recognize González as president.
The position of the Executive and the European Union is similar to that of neighboring countries such as Colombia, Brazil and Chile, which are asking the regime of Nicolas Maduro to show the electoral results in order to recognize a winner.
