Last Saturday’s demonstration in Madrid, in which Edmundo González was the main participant, gave rise to a series of insults from Nicolas Maduro towards the Popular Party. After qualifying Alberto Núñez Feijóo as a “thief linked to drug trafficking” and Isabel Díaz Ayuso as a “phalangist”, the people underlined the government’s inaction in the face of the attacks and what they consider to be its “complicit silence”.
“The Spanish Francoist Party”, as the President of Venezuela described the PP on Sunday, attacked Pedro Sánchez and his ministers, whom he accuses of being “so courageous with the dead dictators and so submissive with the living”, according to the terms of its general secretary, Cuca Gamarra.
Gamarra posted a tweet Saturday evening about his “We will continue until the end.” He reinforced his message demanding freedom for Venezuela.
The dictator Maduro insults and slanders us in the face of the complicit silence of Sánchez and his ministers. So courageous with dead dictators and so submissive with the living.
Maduro will neither silence us nor hide the result of July 28. We will continue until the end. #FreeVenezuela. https://t.co/m2anvS1xGi
–Cuca Gamarra (@cucagamarra) September 29, 2024
The popular secretary was not the only one to accuse the government of its inaction in the face of Maduro’s words. The popular spokesperson for Congress, Miguel Tellado, joked on the same social network with a clear message: “Does anyone know what time Pedro Sánchez condemns Maduro’s insults and attacks against Feijóo and Ayuso? It’s just to know…”
The Venezuelan president spoke in harsh terms and rejection against the protest for Venezuela’s freedom, during which Edmundo González appeared in public for the first time after his exile. He called him an “old vagabond, coward” as he celebrated his re-election two months ago. Maduro also attacked the popular people who participated and met with the elected president of Venezuela, according to the published minutes: “There was a Falangist named Isabel Ayuso, something like the mayor of Madrid. Colonialist fascist, one of the worst in Spain. There was this Feijóo, a thief linked to drug trafficking in Galicia.
“The insults uttered by Maduro against Alberto Núñez Feijóo only seek to divert attention from his unsustainable situation after the electoral debacle of 28J,” wrote Estéban González Pons, vice-president of the PP, on his X account.
The popular group promoted initiatives in Congress and the Senate to ask the government to recognize Edmundo González as president of Venezuela. Despite their approval by a majority, they did not achieve their objective.
