Venezuelan Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez reiterated this Sunday that Venezuela has maintained “extensive negotiations” with Spain for the departure of the Caribbean country from the abandonment of the largest anti-Chavista coalition, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia,while the Spanish government denies any “political negotiation” with any “counterpart” between the two countries. Rodriguez’s statements fuel criticism from the right of Pedro Sánchez’s government, assuring that “this removes a problem from the dictatorship.”
“The forger is not a good advisor. In-depth conversations and contacts took place to operationalize the departure from the country of the opponent González Urrutia with all the guarantees offered by a safe conduct, fruit of the agreement between the two governments,” Rodríguez said on his Telegram channel. “It is a fact of communication that Spanish Air Force plane landing with the authorization of the Venezuelan aeronautical authorities,” added Rodriguez.
The official thus responded to certain statements by the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albareshas ETPNo denied that there had been any discussions on the issue, but dismissed the existence of negotiations with his counterparts and insisted that the asylum and transfer to Madrid had been personally requested by Edmundo González himself, to which the Spanish government responded positively.
In another interview in The countryAlbares insisted that “there is no type of compensation, There has been no political negotiation between the governments.” “Spain has not changed and will not change its position on the electoral result if it does not recognize it (referring to Nicolas Maduro) without the minutes” he argued.
Feeds the criticism of the PP
The PP considers that the asylum that the government grants to Venezuelans “It is not about doing a service to democracy, but rather about eliminating a problem of dictatorship.” of President Nicolás Maduro. The deputy secretary for Institutional Affairs of the Popular Party (PP), Esteban González Pons, thus spoke on the X network about the granting of asylum, requested by González Urrutia.
PP leader criticizes government president and former Spanish president José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero: “Sanchez and the corrupt offices of the ZP (Rodríguez Zapatero) should be sparing with self-praise“, wrote
Edmundo González arrived in Madrid this Sunday after leaving Caracas on board a Spanish Air Force plane. The opponent had already spent more than a month protected in the diplomatic offices of the Netherlands. On September 5, he visited the Spanish diplomatic headquarters and left the country on Saturday.
The United States, for its part, assured this Sunday that the exile of the former Venezuelan presidential candidate is the result of “anti-democratic measures” of the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro. “Edmundo González Urrutia remains an undisputed voice for peace and democratic change in Venezuela. His message of democratic restoration in Venezuela has inspired hopes and aspirations of the Venezuelan people and translated into a powerful call for change in the July 28 presidential elections,” the U.S. State Department said.
Thus, he stressed in a statement that “his departure from Venezuela is the direct result of the antidemocratic measures that Nicolás Maduro has launched against the Venezuelan people, including against González Urrutia and other opposition leaders, since the elections.”
