Edmundo González, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, proclaimed himself again this Friday president-elect of his country. But today, he went further by making an unexpected announcement: “I am going to Venezuela on Friday January 10 to take office as elected president of Venezuela,” he announced during the Spanish political debate forum La Toja-Vínculo Atlantico. town of O Grove (Pontevedra). We must not forget that January 10, 2025 is the expected date for taking possession of the President of the Government of Venezuela.
“My departure from the country is only temporary, But that didn’t stop me from being forced to leave Venezuela due to countless pressures and extreme threats that affected even the closest part of my family life. “I am one more of this migration forced to leave our land,” added Edmundo González during the press conference after the event in La Toja.
Churchill He said that “you can recognize a man as an emperor or as a merchant. Recognition has no meaning without a determining formula. This is precisely the question in the Venezuelan case: the decisive formula seems clear if we adapt to the facts: Edmundo González should take office as president as the winner of the elections.
Edmundo González, winner in the minutes
This is evidenced by the electoral registers held by the opposition, some of which were presented by the Carter Center for Latin America and the Caribbean. Your advisor Jenny Lincoln showed the electoral results that would demonstrate the victory of the opposition candidate, Edmundo González, in the Venezuelan elections.
“I just received the originals (…) and I would like to share them with you after the session so you can see that these are original minutes from Venezuela, that they have a very important and which allowed witnesses, electoral observers, in thousands and thousands of voting centers, to systematically collect information based, again, on original data produced by the CNE (National Electoral Center). “This is the key point of this election,” he said this week.
It is for this reason that the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, Edmundo González, proclaims himself elected president of his countrybecause he believes that the polls and a good part of the international community support him. This Friday, he asked for help from Spain to enforce his election and respect popular sovereignty.
González made the request after the Carter Center, a US organization monitoring the July 28 presidential elections, showed “original” voting records on Wednesday that indicate his electoral victory.
The opponent spoke at the Spanish political debate forum La Toja-Vínculo Atlántico, organized in the town of O Grove (northwest) in the presence of the Spanish conservative leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo and the regional president of Galicia, Alfonso Rueda .
Along with the rest of those present, they showed their solidarity with the Venezuelan politician with prolonged applause and affectionate greetings at the end of the speech.
After thanking Spain for welcoming him with thousands of other Venezuelans and recalling the links of all kinds between the two countries, he reiterated that his departure from Venezuela was “only temporary”.
But he explained that he was forced by political persecution with “indescribable pressure and extreme threats” against him and his family, in what, he assured, was the most difficult chapter and the more demanding of his life.
Now, he said, it is his turn to speak out without ties and denounce a “regime” like that of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, which “intimidates, forces society to maintain forced silence and maintains a communications curfew” somewhat cushioned thanks to digital journalism and social networks.
González described the situation in his country: “On the one hand, there is democracy and justice; on the other, authoritarianism and abuse. But there are not two Venezuelas. There is only one, the democratic one, supported by millions of votes obtained on July 28 and which demonstrated, after this exemplary civic day, how deeply democratic culture is rooted in the soul of the Venezuelan.
