Venezuela’s Chavismo-controlled Parliament on Tuesday approved an agreement that urges Nicolas Maduro’s government to sever diplomatic, consular and commercial relations with Spain, in response to the Spanish Congress’ decision to recognize opponent Edmundo González Urrutia – exiled. in Madrid – as the winner of the July 28 presidential elections.
The agreement asks the government to evaluate, “within a peremptory deadline, the severance of relations” with the Kingdom of Spain, as well as “reciprocal action for the crude and intrusive proposal adopted in the Congress of Deputies” of the European country against “Venezuelan institutionality”.
In addition, the approved document “categorically” rejects the “disastrous resolution promoted by the fascist right of the Spanish Congress”, which calls for respecting “the decision of the Venezuelan people who sovereignly elected (…) re-elected Nicolas Maduro. president.”
This agreement is approved almost a month after, on September 11, the president of the National Assembly (AN), the Chavista Jorge Rodríguez, asked the Foreign Policy Commission to meet immediately to draft a resolution that demands “the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela must immediately sever all relations” with the European country.
The deputy then requested that the resolution establish that “all commercial activities of Spanish companies cease immediately”, in response to what he considers “the most brutal outrage” by Spain against Venezuela “since the era” when this Caribbean country was fighting for its independence, in reference to the decision of Congress.
Last September, the Spanish Congress, with the vote against the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), approved a non-legislative proposal promoted by the Popular Party (PP) in which it asks the government to recognize González as president of Venezuela , who arrived in Madrid on the 8th of this month to request asylum from the persecution he claims to have suffered in his country.
However, the government of Pedro Sánchez has not, for the moment, recognized the opponent as elected president, as requested by the parties that voted for it, notably the opposition Popular Party (PP) and VOX.
Maduro’s controversial re-election was proclaimed by the National Electoral Council (CNE) on the basis of results still unknown in a disaggregated manner, and is rejected and described as “fraudulent” by the majority opposition – the Unitary Democratic Platform (PUD) – . which claims the victory of González Urrutia.
