He Senate Spanish has supported a motion by the conservative Popular Party to pressure the socialist government Pedro Sanchez to recognize “unequivocally” the opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia as president of Venezuelaless than a month before the inauguration of the elected head of state of the South American country, scheduled for January 10.
The initiative has been approved with the support of the far-right Voxthe Basque nationalists and the Catalan independentists.
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Gonzalez Urrutiaexiled in Madrid after competing for the Venezuelan presidency and denounce electoral fraud in the elections last July, has publicly expressed his willingness to return to Venezuela to take office as president even at the risk of being arrested.
The opposition leader, who this week collected the award Sakharov that grants the European Parliamenthas been recognized as legitimate president of Venezuela for him Congress and the Spanish Senate, the PE and some governments, but not by the Spanish Executive nor that of the European Union.
However, around thirty nations, including Spainsigned a joint declaration in September to achieve a democratic transition in Venezuela and which stated that, with the documentation “available”, the opposition candidate had won the presidential election.
The motion approved this Wednesday proposes designing a response to involve the European institutions in recovering Venezuela “the democratic model” and demand the release of the political prisoners.
The text does not include a proposal for the Government to request an arrest warrant for Ripeas approved by Congress a few days ago.
The Venezuelan opposition has shown records that would confirm a resounding victory for Gonzalez Urrutia about Nicolas Madurowhom the Venezuelan electoral authorities declared as the winner of the elections without presenting evidence to reliably prove it.
In a recent interview with EFE Gonzalez Urrutia He insisted on his intention to return to Venezuela “as of January 10” despite admitting a possible risk of arrest.
“You don’t go to war with fear. I am not going to a war, but I am going to the recovery of Venezuelan democracy and I am going with a lot of effort and with a lot of will to rebuild democratic legality in Venezuela”González told EFE before picking up the Sakharov to freedom of conscience at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Strasbourg (France).
