The main opposition candidate in the last presidential election in Venezuela, Edmundo González, said this Friday (4) that his absence from the country is only temporary.
González, who left Venezuela on September 8, made the statement while participating in the Foro La Toja democracy event, which is being held in O Grove, Spain.
“My departure from the country is only temporary, but I was forced to leave Venezuela due to indescribable pressures and extreme threats that affected even the closest part of my family life,” said the oppositionist, according to information from the website Efecto Cocuyo.
“I am another member of this migration, forced to leave our land. It’s my turn to accompany the diaspora,” he said, citing the millions of Venezuelans who have left the country since the beginning of Chavismo in 1999, many, like him, heading to Spain.
González thanked the Spaniards for the “generous resources of diplomatic action, within the provisions of international law”, and said that their presence in the European country has helped to “mobilize Spanish solidarity and, by extension, the rest of Europe, with the democratic cause of Venezuela.”
González, whose coalition maintains that he was the true winner of the July 28 election (and made copies of the voting minutes available on a website to prove this), went into exile in Spain after his arrest was ordered by the Venezuelan Justice, equipped by dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Later, the oppositionist said that, in order for him to leave, he was forced by the Venezuelan dictatorship to sign a document in which he would have recognized and accepted a decision by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) that ratified Maduro’s “victory” in the election. He stated that, due to the threats he received, the declaration is null from a legal point of view.
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