The Venezuelan opposition Edmundo González Urrutiaexiled in Spain, insisted this Tuesday that he remains firm in his intention to return to Venezuela on January 10 to be sworn in as president of that country, as mandated by the Constitution.
“My swearing-in will be in the terms of the Constitution in Venezuela, before the legislative bodies that are approved to carry out that swearing-in. Without any doubt,” González Urrutia said in an interview with the program The Afternoon from the NTN24 channel.
González Urrutia, who today was recognized by the United States Government as “elected president” of Venezuela, after the July 28 elections, refrained from giving details about his possible return to Venezuela to assume power because, as he said, “Those plans are not revealed because they already told me that they had a delegation waiting for me.”
The opposition leader has been recognized as “president-elect” by the European Parliament and by several governments based on the July elections in which the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, obtained a controversial re-election that is not recognized by many countries.
The tour of Europe
González Urrutia highlighted the reception he received in a recent tour of Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany in which, he added, he has been disclosing the truth about what happened in the Venezuelan elections and “the plans we have for the future, which is perhaps the most important thing.”
“We have been carrying the voice of democratic Venezuela“We have been letting people know what happened in Venezuela on July 28,” he said.
He immediately added: “On these trips what we find are manifestations of affection, affection, pleasure of having each other and of listening to that voice of democratic Venezuela, the voice of the one who won the democratic elections and what plans we have for the country. “.
He also highlighted that in his meetings with interlocutors such as the high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security, Josep Borrell, who will end his five-year mandate this month, or with the vice president of the Italian Government and Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, ha denounced the human rights crisis in Venezuelawhere more than 2,000 people have been imprisoned since July 28 for their political beliefs.
political prisoners
“That has been a central theme in our conversations (…) When we narrate to our interlocutors the situation of political prisoners in Venezuela It’s something that really draws attention,” he said.
In that sense, he recalled that among those political prisoners “There are minor children in prisons sharing with adults”disabled people or people who suffer from autism, “that is something that surprises and draws the attention of our interlocutors.”
“They are prisoners who should never have been in that situation (…) Many have been detained for simply expressing and expressing their position to the Government. That, in a democratic society, is unthinkable for it to happen,” he added.
According to González Urrutia, “that will be one of the priority issues (…) from the first day we reach our position, the position that the majority of the people gave us on July 28 when nearly eight million voted for our candidacy”.
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