Spain’s main opposition party, the conservative Popular Party (PP), called it a “shame” that the leader Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia signed a document under “coercion” at the Spanish ambassador’s residence in Caracas, and accused Pedro Sánchez’s government of being complicit in a “criminal scam.”
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González Urrutia said on Wednesday that he signed a document before leaving Venezuela under the threat that if he did not do so he would have to “face the consequences,” a “coercion” that in his opinion nullifies the text.
Did Delcy Rodríguez coerce, blackmail and pressure the president-elect of Venezuela at the residence of the Spanish ambassador?
In a message on the social network X, the deputy general secretary of the PP Esteban González Pons expressed his alarm at the fact that Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez pressured the Venezuelan opposition leader to sign in exchange for allowing him to leave the country and go into exile.
“Delcy Rodríguez coerced, blackmailed and pressured the president-elect of Venezuela at the residence of the Spanish ambassador?! How shameful. We want the truth,” González Pons claimed in a message on the social network X.
The conservative opposition also accused Pedro Sánchez’s government of being “complicit” in the “coup d’état that has taken place in Venezuela.”
And he added: “What criminal racket is the Sánchez government involved in? Torture in the embassy? It was not humanity, but complicity.”
The party’s spokesperson in the Senate, Alicia García, defined the episode as “a shameless act of submission to Chavismo” by the Spanish Executive. and accused him of being “in cahoots” (associated) with the Venezuelan regime.
In a video posted on his social media, González Urrutia, who has been exiled since September 8 in Spain where he is seeking political asylum, responded to the presentation by the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, of a “signed letter” in which The opposition leader says he accepts the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice of his country to validate the controversial victory of Nicolás Maduro in the elections of July 28.
The opposition leader explains that, while he was sheltered in the residence of the Spanish ambassador in Caracas, He was presented with a document that he had to sign to obtain the safe conduct that would allow him to leave Venezuela and go into exile.
In his message, he describes the moment in which he signed the document, “very tense hours of coercion, blackmail and pressure” carried out by the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly and the vice president of the country, Delcy Rodríguez.
The response of the Government of Spain
The Spanish Government, according to sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “has nothing to do with any document or negotiation” between Edmundo González and the Venezuelan Executive and, in fact, the Minister of Foreign Affairs José Manuel Albares “gave direct instructions to the ambassador not to interfere in any actions that the opposition leader might undertake.”
According to his explanations, when opposition leader Edmundo González requested to be welcomed at the residence of the Spanish ambassador in Caracas, “he was guaranteed that he could see him or make any arrangements he decided to make in relation to his situation.”
The truth is that Edmundo González’s story has caused a new political storm in Spain over the situation in Venezuela.
Tensions between Madrid and Caracas have escalated in recent weeks after the Spanish Congress and Senate urged the government to recognize Edmundo González as Venezuela’s president-elect, a move that has no legal significance but is a boost for the opposition presidential candidate.
In response, the Venezuelan Parliament will urge Nicolás Maduro on Thursday to “evaluate” the breaking of diplomatic and commercial relations with Spain.
Venezuela is also holding two Spaniards, accusing them of participating in an alleged plot against the Maduro government, along with four other Americans and a Czech citizen.
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