Hundreds of Venezuelans gathered outside the gates of the Congress deputies This Tuesday, when the Popular Party’s proposal to recognize Edmundo González as elected president of VenezuelaThe crowd showed their support for Gonzalez, arrived in Spain on Sunday as an asylum seeker, fleeing the Chavista regime of Nicolas Maduro. Several lawmakers from different parties left Congress to speak to the hundreds of protesters to show his support for Venezuela and González.
Santiago Abascal, Vox leader, was one of the politicians who mingled with the crowd. The Vox president told the media that Pedro Sanchez, President of the Government, Joseph Borrell, High Representative for EU Foreign Policy and former President José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero They are “accomplices” of Nicolas Maduro. Abascal indicated that the three personalities worked to obtain the “forced exile” of González, “elected and legitimate president” of Venezuela.
Cayetana Alvarez of Toledo, The PP MP also joined the crowd. “Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia “It was voted for by the vast majority of Venezuelans. The popular mandate is in force and we will go all the way,” Álvarez de Toledo told Congress. Leopoldo Lopez And Antonio Ledesma, Two other leaders of the Venezuelan opposition to the regime addressed the crowd to thank them for all their support.The dictatorship deployed its machinery to try to sow doubt that Edmundo González had given up the fight, but he did not. Today we learn that Edmundo is assuming his responsibilities as the elected president of Venezuelans,” said Leopoldo López. The opponent also expressed his gratitude for the proposal of the Popular Party, led by Alvarez of Toledoto recognize González as the elected president of Venezuela.
The crowd gathered in front of the Congress of Deputies chanted the name of González, the opposition candidate and winner of the June 28 elections, and asked freedom for Venezuela. Cries have also been heard against the government of Pedro Sánchez, which has not yet recognized González as the legitimate president.
The opponent arrived in Spain last Sunday after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreed with the Maduro regime on his departure from Venezuela. Jose Manuel AlbaresForeign Minister, assured the same day that González’s asylum was “approved.” The president-elect spent more than a month in hiding, first in the embassy of The Netherlands in Caracas and then in the Spain, from where he obtained safe passage to leave Venezuela. The Spanish-American country’s prosecutor’s office had issued an arrest warrant against Edmundo Gonzalez after refusing to testify three times about the publication of the election results that won him the election.
The proposal of People’s Party The recognition of the opponent as president-elect was debated this Tuesday in Congress and everything indicates that it will be approved in the vote on Wednesday. Basque Nationalist Party, The PSOE’s usual partner in the vote in the Cortes, has already indicated that it will vote in favour of the recognition of González. The votes of the PNV will be added to those of the PP and Vox to reach the majority.
The vote on the recognition of Edmundo Gonzalez will mean another defeat in Congress for Pedro Sanchez due to lack of support from its allies. Together already voted against the spending cap in late July, a key vote to approve the General State Budgets and get Parliament back on track.
