In an ordinary session in the Legislative Palace of Venezuela, it was approved this Thursday to repudiate “some MEPs of the fascist right”, always according to Chavismo, who have voted in the European Parliament to recognize Edmundo González as the winner of the presidential elections against the current president, Nicolás Maduro. The European deputies base their vote on the persistent refusal of the Maduro Government to show the minutes with which it would prove the supposed victory that it claims.
The official minutes collected by the opposition, led by María Corina Machado, contradict the result given by the National Electoral Council (CNE), the electoral referee controlled by the ruling party, which proclaimed Maduro the winner amid allegations of fraud. The agreement has three points in which the European Parliament’s resolution is repudiated, “the practice of recognizing fictitious governments as a perverse mechanism of pressure to commit serious violations of sovereignty” is condemned and “the failed colonialist strategy is abandoned.”
Jorge Rodríguez, president of the National Assembly, had indicated on Wednesday, after having revealed the details of how González Urrutia’s departure into exile in Madrid came about, that on Thursday the agreement that had already been introduced to reject the resolution of the Spanish Congress of Deputies – with the same position of urging the recognition of the opposition as the European Parliament has done – and the breaking of relations with that country would be approved. The matter, however, was not included in the agenda of the day and it was not clear whether it was going to be put on the table or not.
The debate on the agreement against the MEPs was started by José Brito, a former presidential candidate and part of the opposition group that Chavismo has orchestrated. The ruling party often refers to them as “the true opposition,” while other anti-Chavez supporters call them scorpions, and accuse them of being a false opposition that plays into Chavismo’s hands to create a fictitious democratic environment. “The times of viceroyalties and captaincies were abolished more than 200 years ago. We must categorically reject interference,” he said. “There will be no Guaidó 2.0 here,” he added, referring to Guaidó’s interim government recognized by several countries between 2019 and 2022.
Institutional criticism was not only focused on Europe. The first vice president of the National Assembly, Pedro Infante, recently sanctioned by the United States, also denounced the approval by the Chilean Congress of the recognition of González. “This shows the instrumentalization of Parliaments by the extreme right to hinder the management of President Maduro,” he said. He accused them of being complicit in the alleged plots against the Venezuelan government.
“You evaluate the caliber of these fascists,” said Rodriguez, who devoted himself to commenting on the other resolution approved in the European Parliament on Ukraine and read a message from the president of the Russian Chamber of Deputies, in which he warns of a harsh response with weapons to the next moves that kyiv may make. The agreement on the European Parliament resolution was sanctioned with a brief debate. The parliamentarians raised their hands in approval and Rodriguez even stood up, a gesture that the other parliamentarians of Chavismo followed.
During the session, Maduro’s main political operator referred to González as “the coerced one,” in reference to the allegations he made of having signed a letter under duress at the Spanish embassy in Caracas, in which he promised to abide by the sentence with which Chavismo validated its supposed victory on July 28 and to lower his public profile.
In response to the allegations, Rodríguez has threatened to reveal more details of the opposition candidate’s departure into exile, after a judicial witch-hunt to which he was subjected for weeks following the elections. “That man has said yesterday and today that he will be sworn in on January 10. Where? It will be at the rehabilitation clinic for the elderly in Valencia, where Dinorah Figuera (the former president of the opposition National Assembly who had to go into exile) works. Or he will go to Doral in Miami to be sworn in by the excellent paddle tennis player Juan Guaidó,” he concluded.
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