The National Assembly (Parliament) of Venezuela, controlled by Chavismo, approved this Tuesday an agreement that urges the Government of Nicolás Maduro to break diplomatic, consular and commercial relations with Spain, in response to the decision of the Spanish Congress to recognize the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia – exiled in Madrid – as winner of the presidential elections on July 28.
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The agreement asks the Government to evaluate, “in a peremptory time, the rupture of relations” with the Kingdom of Spain, as well as a “reciprocal action for the rude and interfering proposal adopted in the Congress of Deputies” of the European country against “the Venezuelan institutionality”.
Furthermore, the approved document “categorically” rejects the “disastrous resolution promoted by the fascist right of the Spanish Congress,” which it urges to respect “the decision of the Venezuelan people who sovereignly elected (…) Nicolás Maduro as re-elected president.”
This agreement is approved almost a month after, on September 11, the president of the National Assembly (AN), Chavista Jorge Rodríguez, asked the Foreign Policy Commission for an immediate meeting to draft a resolution that asks “the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to immediately sever all relations” with the European country.
Then, the deputy asked that the resolution establish that “all commercial activities of Spanish companies be ceased immediately,” in response to what he considered “the most brutal outrage” by Spain against Venezuela “since the times” when The Caribbean country fought for its independence, in reference to the decision of Congress.
Last September, the Spanish Congress, with the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) voting against, approved a non-law proposal promoted by the Popular Party (PP) in which it asks the Government to recognize González as president of Venezuela. Urrutia, who arrived in Madrid on the 8th of that month to seek asylum from the persecution he claims to have suffered in his country.
However, the Government of Pedro Sánchez, for the moment, has not recognized the opponent as president-elect, as requested by the parties that voted in favor, including the opposition Popular Party (PP) and VOX.
Maduro’s controversial re-election was proclaimed by the National Electoral Council (CNE) based on results that are still unknown in a disaggregated manner, and is rejected and designated as “fraudulent” by the majority opposition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – , which claims the victory of González Urrutia.
Venezuelan Parliament urges the Government of Spain to abolish the monarchy
The National Assembly of Venezuela also approved this Tuesday a political agreement in which it calls on the Government of Spain to abolish the monarchy, considering it an institution linked to corruption and an “expression of the extreme right.”
In the midst of a heated intervention, the president of the Chamber, Jorge Rodríguez, raised the idea, in response to the decision of the Spanish Congress, which recognized the anti-Chavista Edmundo González Urrutia as elected president of Venezuela in the July 28 elections, whose official result gave victory to Nicolás Maduro.
It is about “proposing to the Government of Spain that the Bourbon monarchy be abolished, which has served no purpose other than for corruption, for chaos, for the expression of the extreme right,” said Rodríguez, who declared approved the point before the visible majority of raised hands in the plenary session.
In his opinion, the Crown is “a ridiculous institution, based on something as barbaric as blood rights.”
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