The PP’s deputy secretary for Institutional Affairs, Esteban González Pons, criticized the political asylum that Spain offered to Venezuelan opponent Edmundo González, main rival of President Nicolás Maduro in the presidential election of July 28, because “it is not doing a service to democracy, but to eliminate a problem of the dictatorship.
“Sanchez and the corrupt ZP offices should spare themselves their praise: removing Edmundo Gonzalez without recognizing him as the legitimate president does not serve democracy, but rather eliminates a problem for the dictatorship. Cuba would do the same if asked,” he published this Sunday on the social network X.
Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, deputy spokesperson for the PP in Congress, also spoke on the subject. “The government hangs medals to bring them. Spain to the wrong man. It is not the elected president of Venezuela who should have received a silver bridge, but rather the criminal usurper,” he wrote on his X account.
Ayuso asked Spain to grant him asylum at the embassy
The statements by the PP members come just days after the president of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, asked the government to open the Spanish embassy in Caracas to the Venezuelan opposition candidate to grant him asylum. “Spain should open the doors of the embassy today to protect this man, because they are going to kill him or arrest him and they will not release him. And they are doing it with the relatives and entourage of the winners of the elections, who are not the opposition, but the government elected by the Venezuelan people,” Díaz Ayuso said in an interview with Antena 3.
In addition, the PP was prepared to submit this week to the vote in plenary session of the Congress an initiative on the presidential elections in Venezuela, with the aim of getting Spain to recognize the opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, as the winner and new president of the country, as well as a condemnation of the repression of the Nicolas Maduro regime and a disapproval of the silence of the former socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who participated in mediation tasks between the government and the opposition.
Edmundo González Urrutia left Venezuela this Sunday for Spain as a political asylum, as reported by the governments of both countries.
“Edmundo González took off from Caracas towards Spain on board a Spanish Air Force plane. The Spanish government has put in place the diplomatic and material means necessary for his transfer, carried out at his request,” reads the statement published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The head of the portfolio, José Manuel Albares, confirmed this information on his account on the social network X, where he reiterated the “commitment” of the Spanish authorities “in favor of the political rights and physical integrity of all Venezuelans.”
Venezuela’s executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, also announced that González Urrutia had left the country with safe passage “for the sake of tranquility and political peace.”
Edmundo González was the subject of an arrest warrant issued at the request of the prosecutor’s office, which had summoned him three times as part of an investigation for alleged crimes related to the publication on the Internet of documents that would prove Maduro’s defeat and dismantle the data of the National Electoral Council (CNE).
