The Government welcomes the arrival of Edmundo Gonzalez in Spain. An operation that culminated this Sunday afternoon, when the Venezuelan opposition landed at the Torrejón de Ardoz air base in Madrid, but which He had been preparing for “several days”As the Minister of Foreign Affairs revealed, Jose Manuel Albares.
“For us, an absolute red line is respect for the political rights and physical integrity of the leaders,” Albares defended in statements to TVE, where he insisted that the departure and asylum were granted at the request of the leader himself. González Urrutia and that “There was no political negotiation of any kind between the Spanish Government and the Venezuelan Government.”
In the same spirit, the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, affirmed that “There is no agreement between governments nor of any other kind.”This is a request from a citizen that we are all equal before rights and before the laws,” he said.
Previously, Albares had celebrated the arrival of the Venezuelan opponent in our country with a message on the social network “Spain is committed to democracy and human rights in Venezuela” he wrote.
PP criticism
At People’s PartyHowever, This welcome does not seem sufficient to him.. Its institutional vice-secretary, Esteban González Pons, assures that “this does not serve democracy, but rather it eliminates a problem of the dictatorship”, while the deputy spokesperson of the Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, reproached that “the government hangs medals for having brought the wrong man to Spain.”
The “popular” asks to go further and recognize Edmundo González as legitimate presidentThe PSOE, for its part, responded directly through .
This is not the only demand of the popular. Your leader, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo He had already asked the Spanish government to lead the support for González, when this operation was already underway: “Let him say it, let him defend it and let him lead it to the European Union and the Ibero-American Community,” he shouted a few days ago.
For their part, Sumar asks that this serve to resume dialogue between the Venezuelan government and the opposition. An asylum that has found an echo not only in Spain, but also at European level. The High Representative of the Union, Josep Borrell, deplored that “today is a sad day for democracy in Venezuela.”
