The flag bearer of the Venezuelan opposition Edmundo González published a video in which he claims that signed a document from the Nicolás Maduro regime under “coercion” to be able to leave Venezuela.
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In the video, published on his X profile, González recounts what he called: “the whole truth of what happened with my departure from Venezuela.”
According to his account, when he was at the residence of the Spanish Ambassador, The president of the National Assembly (Parliament), Jorge Rodríguez, and the Venezuelan vice president Delcy Rodríguez “showed up with a document that they would have to endorse” to allow their departure from the country.
“In other words, either I signed or I would face the consequences,” said Gonzalez, who said that “there were very tense hours of coercion, blackmail and pressure.”
In other words, either I signed it or I faced the consequences.
“At that time I considered that I could be more useful free than locked up and unable to fulfill the tasks entrusted to me by the sovereign (citizenship),” he said, not without first emphasizing that “A document produced under duress is vitiated by absolute nullity, due to a serious defect in consent”.
González warned that with this action “the regime (of Maduro) intends for all Venezuelans to lose hope. The whole world knows that they always resort to dirty tricks, blackmail and manipulation.”
In this regard, he insisted: “They will not silence me.” And he sent a message to the Venezuelans who voted for him in the elections of July 28: “I will never betray you.”
“What they should be disclosing are the minutes of the vote count, the truth is what it is and it is in the minutes that you are trying to hide. You are not going to silence a country that has already spoken.”he concluded.
It should be noted that González’s lawyer, José Vicente Haro, had already denied on September 8, in the face of growing “rumors” on social networks and various “media outlets”, that his client had signed any document recognizing Maduro as president-elect, as the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced on election night, nor the subsequent “verification” by the Supreme Court.
The letter that Jorge Rodriguez presented
González issued this statement after the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, released a “letter signed” by the standard-bearer of the majority opposition earlier on Wednesday.
According to Rodriguez, who highlighted the “voluntary” signature of the anti-Chavez leader, In this alleged letter, González says he accepts the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to validate the controversial victory of Nicolás Maduro in the elections of July 28..
In a televised address, Rodriguez explained that representatives of the Maduro government were “contacted by interlocutors” of Gonzalez to establish communications, just when the Venezuelan justice system had issued an arrest warrant against the standard-bearer of the main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD).
Those interlocutors, the Chavista continued, expressed the “desire that Mr. González Urrutia had to leave the country,” for which reason He requested safe-conduct passes from the Venezuelan authorities so he could travel to the airport and take the flight on a Spanish Air Force plane, which finally took him to Spain, where he requested political asylum..
The letter, which was disseminated by some media outlets, reads: “I have always been and will continue to be willing to recognize and abide by the decisions adopted by the organs of Justice, including the aforementioned ruling by the Electoral Chamber (which validated Maduro’s victory at the polls), which although I do not agree with, I abide by.”.
The president of the legislature stressed that the letter was written voluntarily and that there was no “situation in which Mr. Edmundo González Urrutia could feel violated.” A version that the anti-Chavez leader denied in his video statement.
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