The PP will seek this Tuesday that the Congress of Deputies recognize Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the winner of the Venezuelan elections, when Spain demands to see the electoral records and has not recognized the victory attributed to Nicolás Maduro amid allegations of electoral fraud.
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The match of Alberto Nunez Feijoo will seek to have Congress urge Pedro Sánchez’s government to adopt this position through a non-legislative proposal that the PP promoted after repeatedly accusing the Executive of lukewarmness for not considering the opposition leader the winner of the elections.
Pressure mounts for presidential recognition of Venezuelan opposition leader
The text, which the popular party registered last August, indicates that the recognition of González Urrutia bases his argument on the refusal of the Venezuelan authorities to publish the results and the “publication by the opposition of 83.5% of the verifiable minutes that demonstrate a categorical electoral result.”
They also refer to “the Official pronouncements of international institutions such as the Carter Center, the United Nations, and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security.”
The PP also wants the House to urge the Government to lead the recognition González in the European institutions with the goal of taking office as president of Venezuela on January 10, 2025.
The motion, with up to nine points, also calls for an end to the repression of protests, the release of political prisoners, contribute to the personal safety of Maria Corina Machado or Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiaor reinstate in the European Union the sanctions against the leaders of the Maduro regime that were lifted before the elections.
Congress will debate this initiative of the Popular Party after the Venezuelan justice system has issued an arrest warrant against Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia which has been condemned by several Latin American countries and also by the Government of Spain
The Spanish conservative leader claims that Maduro wins with the departure of Edmundo González
The leader of the Spanish right (PP), the opposition Alberto Nunez Feijoodenounced this Monday that whoever wins with the departure of Edmundo González Urrutia from Venezuela is President Nicolas Maduro because “the democratic politician who won the elections had to leave and the dictator who lost them remains in power and controls the government.”
Along these lines, he commented that the Venezuelan president will be celebrating that the one who “won the elections,” referring to González Urrutia, has left Venezuela “with the mediation of what appears to be (José Luis Rodríguez) Zapatero (former head of the Spanish Executive) and the government of Pedro Sánchez”both from the Socialist Party.
Interviewed on the Antena 3 channel, Núñez Feijóo referred to the asylum that the Spanish Government will grant at the request of the Venezuelan opposition leader himself, who He arrived in Madrid on Sundaybut without recognizing him as president-elect in the presidential elections last July, he lamented.
The democratic politician who won the elections has had to leave and the dictator who lost them remains and controls the Government.
The Spanish conservative politician (Popular Party) added that, if he were head of the Executive, Spain would also have granted asylum to González Urrutia, but with treatment of president-elect, and would have joined the Criminal Courtl International to ask for the arrest of Maduro.
He recalled that former Spanish leaders Felipe González (socialist), José María Aznar and Mariano Rajoy (right), among thirty former Ibero-American leaders, have already done so, but not Rodríguez Zapatero, who “is in all kinds of leagues with Maduro and Sánchez,” added Núñez Feijóo.
The president of the Madrid region and one of the most important politicians of the Spanish right expressed herself in similar terms, Isabel Diaz Ayusoat an event with journalists.
He criticized the Spanish Government for considering “a triumph” that González Urrutia has arrived in Spain after requesting political asylum, when the leaders of the Spanish left have been “silent all this time” about the “threats and persecution” suffered by the opposition leader, who had an arrest warrant in Venezuela.
The Spanish Congress will debate on Tuesday a proposal by conservatives that calls for recognizing Edmundo González as the winner of the elections, against the official result, which gave victory to Maduro with the endorsement of the National Electoral Council and the Supreme Court.
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