The People’s Party has undertaken a flight forward that even the words of Venezuelan opponent Edmundo González Urrutia cannot stop him; and insists on the resignation of Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares and for Pedro Sánchez to take a position on the “regime” of Nicolas Maduro. And a statement from the opponent late this Thursday night left the “popular” without arguments and disrupted its toughest strategysince inside denies being pressured by the government to leave Venezuela.
The “popular”, led by its deputy secretary for Institutional Affairs, Esteban González Pons, has raised its voice against the executive of Pedro Sánchez to levels never seen before, with accusations of participation in “coercion” or even “a coup d’état” by Maduro. All this happened after Edmundo González published a video in which he denounced the “pressure” and “coercion” of the Chavista government. These alleged “coercions” would have been exercised within the Spanish embassy in Caracas in collaboration with the Venezuelan executive, a version evoked by the PP.
PP President Alberto Núñez Feijóo, who is used to disavowing Pons when he slows down too much, this Thursday He didn’t even qualify his remarks. despite the PSOE’s request for resignation. Feijóo, far from stopping this risky strategy although without referring to Pons’ statements, asked the head of the Executive offer “immediate” explanations and demanded the resignation of Minister Albares, as well as the replacement of the Spanish ambassador in Caracas, Ramón Santos.
The Executive maintained throughout the day on Thursday that, of course, it had not “forced or pressured” Edmundo González to agree to leave Venezuela. Then, late at night, the Venezuelan opponent himself came out to deny the PP’s accusations in a statement where he clarified that “he was not forced by the Spanish government or by the ambassador.”
“Given the different versions circulating regarding allegations of coercion exercised by officials of the Spanish State, including Ambassador Ramón Santos, towards me, I would like to clarify categorically the following: “I was not forced by the Spanish government or the Spanish ambassador to Venezuela,” said Edmundo González. He also stressed that “the diplomatic efforts made were only intended to facilitate his departure from the country, without exerting any type of pressure.” on him.
Some statements that were a setback for the PP that he had bet everything on the crisis in Venezuela to attack the government. For this reason, Feijóo’s men have already planned the next episode and it is a headlong rush because, according to sources from Genoa to LaSexta, the Spanish ambassador “witnessed the coercion and the embassy was the place where they happened.” “The ambassador was the host of this coercion,” to have defended
In addition, they claim that “the Minister of Foreign Affairs stated that he had not negotiated anything with the regime” and that, however, “one of our diplomatic centers was the place where the person who won the elections agreed to leave Venezuela.” Moving away from direct accusations, Génova maintains that the government “should lead an international front to facilitate political change in Venezuela and remove the dictator who lost the elections” because he believes that ““Spain is putting an end to this possibility.”.
He also put forward his main argument, which is that Sánchez “still does not recognize Edmundo González as president-elect, despite the recognition of the Congress of Deputies and the European Parliament.” They point this out despite the fact that Both requests are not binding and to date no European country has recognised them. Victory for González. And finally, they once again demanded the resignation of Minister Albares, also considering the president’s explanations “even more urgent than yesterday.”
For its part, the PSOE asked Feijóo to “immediately” for his accusations, as well as the resignation of González Pons, according to what socialist sources told LaSexta. For his part, Albares assured that Edmundo González’s statement “makes it very clear that the only person authorized to speak and clarify the decisions he made and everything that happened in the ambassador’s residence” is the opposition leader.
