The Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia claimed this Friday from La Toja as “elected president” in the electoral process of last July 28, as claimed by the opposition and was rejected by the government and courts of Venezuela, and put the “Pacts of Moncloa” of the Spanish transition to democracy as an example to regain institutional normality in the Caribbean country. Furthermore, he assured that he would return to his country for the inauguration scheduled for January 10.
“I will return as soon as possible, when we have restored democracy in the country. January 10 is the constitutionally scheduled date for the inauguration and I hope that the popular will of eight million Venezuelans will be accredited on that day,” said Edmundo González, who even joked: “If President Maduro advances Christmas wouldn’t be strange if I could also bring forward my return.
During his speech at the La Toja Forum, organized by former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and held in O Grove, Pontevedra, González Urrutia highlighted the value of the governance agreements signed in Venezuela in 1958, which “guaranteed a climate of broad political and economic freedoms.
“[Ustedes] They had a frame of reference to design the Moncloa Pact of 1977 or to support, in the case of Chile, from 1990, the experience of democratic consultation. “We Venezuelans would like to feel nothing less at this moment and, therefore, that in retaliation our Ibero-American community can provide support energetically and effectively so that our country can return to institutional normality “,” he argued.
Furthermore, he insisted that his departure from the country was “temporary”, emphasizing his current role as “spokesperson and manager of all actions and procedures aimed at stimulating Spanish solidarity, and by extension the rest of the ‘Europe, with the Venezuelan people’. democratic cause. »
“I do it with the full responsibility that my capacity as elected president gives me, recognized by millions of Venezuelans, eight million to be exact, and by a good part of the international community,” declared González, who claims to be the winner of the July presidential elections, two days after the Carter Center presented the OAS with the electoral results that would give it victory.
After emphasizing that his task is “complex and demanding”, he defended that, more than two months after the presidential elections in the country, “the world knows and recognizes the original minutes”: “Because we showed them transparently. » In turn, González denounced the fact that the response of the “regime” of Nicolás Maduro “has been an alarming toll of deaths, persecutions, political prisoners, both youth cadres and prominent opposition leaders, like María Colina Machado, which no one objected to. the world can be indifferent.
“There are not two Venezuelansthere is only one. The Democrat, supported by millions of votes obtained on July 28. There is no dilemma. What we want, what we aspire to, is to leave behind personalism and improvisation, as well as intolerance and the unbridled persecution of other Venezuelans,” said the Venezuelan, who calls for “recovering the ‘institutionality’ and to ‘recover the value of dialogue. and coexistence’ to rebuild the ‘image’ of the country.
Edmundo González has already requested political asylum in Spain
Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González officially requested political asylum in Spain this week, as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, announced to the Commission on Friday of Congressional Foreign Affairs.
After discrediting “the partisan and political use that some are making of the dramatic situation that the Venezuelan people are experiencing”, Albares affirmed that Edmundo González’s decision to request asylum “was personal and freely his”, as he himself ratified it in a declaration, and added that the government welcomed Edmundo González “as in the past it welcomed Leopoldo López and so many others for humanitarian reasons.”
Regarding the request of the Congress and the Senate that the Executive recognizes González as elected president of Venezuela, as recalled by one of the spokespersons, Albares stressed that so far only two countries have taken this step : Ecuador and Panama; and encouraged the PP to “join the international consensus” and the position that the EU also defends so far.
Venezuela authorizes Spain to provide support to two detained Spaniards
Minister Albares also announced that the Venezuelan government had authorized the granting of consular attention to the two Spaniards detained for their alleged involvement in a plot aimed at destabilizing the government of Nicolas Maduro and of which the Venezuelan justice system accuses the opposition and secret services of Spain or United States.
Today, the minister explained, “Venezuela has informed us by verbal note that we can exercise the appropriate consular protection”, as she had requested since her arrest became known. Albares clearly indicated that he would do “all steps” in his power “so that they are as quickly as possible where they always had to be, in our country, with their families.” “I will spare no effort in this area, as I did not at the time with Juana Ruiz, detained in Israel, or with Ana Baneira and Santiago Sánchez, detained in Iran,” he said.
Albares said he informed Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil that José María Basoa and Andrés Martínez Adasme “are unjustly detained” and that he gives “no credibility to the accusations against them” and that “they have no link with “any Spanish public institution, even less with the CNI”, as Caracas points out.
