The PP’s deputy secretary for Institutional Affairs, Esteban González Pons, called it “a shame” that Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia signed a document under “coercion” at the residence of the Spanish ambassador in Caracas. “What criminal racket is the Sánchez government involved in?”
González Urrutia said on Wednesday that he signed a document, before leaving Venezuela, presented by representatives of the government of Nicolas Maduro under the threat that if he did not do so, he would have to “face the consequences”, a “coercion” that in his opinion, nullifies the text.
“Delcy Rodriguez coerced, blackmailed and pressured the elected president of Venezuela at the residence of the Spanish ambassador?! What a shame. We want the truth,” González Pons said in a message on the social network X.
And he added: “What criminal racket is the Sánchez government involved in? Torture in the embassy? “It was not humanity, but complicity.”
The PP’s spokesperson in the Senate, Alicia García, also reacted. “The fact that Jorge Rodríguez and Delcy Rodríguez went to the Spanish embassy to coerce the legitimate president is a blatant act of submission to Chavismo.”
“There is only one missing: Rodriguez Zapatero. The Spanish government cannot be in cahoots with Chavismo,” he added.
In a video posted on his social networks, González Urrutia, exiled since September 8 in Spain where he is requesting political asylum, responded to the presentation by the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, of a “signed letter” in which the opponent says he respects the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice of his country to validate the controversial victory of Nicolas Maduro in the elections of July 28.
The opponent explains that, while he was staying at the residence of the Spanish ambassador in Caracas, he was presented with a document that he had to sign to obtain a safe conduct that would allow him to leave Venezuela for exile.
In his message, he recounts the moment he signed the document, “very tense hours of coercion, blackmail and pressure” exerted by the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly himself and the country’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez.
