Venezuela’s Chavista-majority National Assembly will approve a resolution this Wednesday urging the government of Nicolas Maduro to break off “all diplomatic, consular, economic and commercial relations” with Spain, after the Congress of Deputies approved the recognition of opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia as president-elect.
The Venezuelan parliament has called an extraordinary session this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. in Spain) to debate the rejection of “the crude and interventionist decision adopted by the Spanish extreme right” in reference to the approval by the Lower House of a non-law proposal without practical effect and with a total of 177 supporters thanks to the votes of the PP, Vox, PNV, UPN and the Canarian Coalition.
National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez urged members of the House’s Standing Committee on Foreign Policy to “peremptorily” approve a resolution urging Nicolas Maduro’s government to break off “all relations” with Spain.
“Let all the representatives of the legation of the Government of the Kingdom of Spain and all the consulates and all the consuls leave here and we will bring ours from there. Let them stay with their murderers, with their putschists, with their fascists, with their violent people,” he said.
