The leader of the opposition and president of the People’s Party, Alberto Nuñez Feijoomet the Venezuelan opposition on Tuesday Edmundo Gonzalez in the Congress of Deputies and reaffirmed his status as “president-elect of Venezuela.”
“Today I had the honor of meeting with the President-elect of Venezuela in Congress, where he was recognized as such. I am fully politically and morally committed with the Venezuelan people. Always on the side of the democrats,” announced the leader of the PP in X.
The Venezuelan opposition leader, who has not yet been recognized by the Spanish government as president of the Caribbean country, also met last Thursday Pedro Sanchez at the Moncloa Palace, and with former presidents Felipe González, Mariano Rajoy and José María Aznar.
The spokesperson of the Popular Group in Congress also joined the meeting, Miguel Telladoand the deputy spokesperson of the PP in the Lower House, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, who accompanied Edmundo González to the exit.
The meeting between Feijóo and González took place at a time of growing tension, following Maduro’s decision to summon the Spanish ambassador to Caracas and summon its diplomatic representative in Spain for consultations, as well as the arrest of two Spaniards in Venezuela.
In fact, the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Madurodescribed the two detained Spaniards as “terrorists” and assured that they were “infiltrated” agents of the Spanish National Intelligence Center (CNI).
At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation continues to demand from the Venezuelan authorities “official and verified” information on the detention of two Spaniards in the country as well as a “clarification of the accusations” against them. been charged.
The PP will continue its offensive against Venezuela this week in Parliament. Thus, it will present another motion to the Senate – where he has an absolute majority – expressly urging the government “to recognize Edmundo González as the new president of Venezuela, taking into account the results of the elections of July 28.”
The PP claims that after the PSOE “refused” to recognize Edmundo Gonzalez As president-elect in Congress, the Socialist Party “can now overcome this historic mistake if it supports the PP’s initiative in the Senate.”
Furthermore, the spokesperson for the Popular Group in the Senate, Alicia Garciamodified his control question on Tuesday so that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, could decide whether “Venezuela is today a dictatorship, as stated by his cabinet colleague Margarita Robles and Alto. Representative of the European Union”, Joseph Borrell.
Likewise, this Tuesday, the European Parliament will hold another debate focused on the crisis in Venezuela, in the presence of the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy.
In addition to this exchange with Borrell, the European Parliament will decide in a resolution the level of support it will offer to the opposition candidate, with the European PP leading the petition to recognize González “as the legitimate and democratically elected president of Venezuela” and María Corina Machado as the leader of the country’s democratic forces.
