He Venezuelan opposition leader, Edmundo González Urrutia, He claimed this Friday as president-elect of Venezuela and He announced that on January 10 he will be back in his country to take office as president.
González Urrutia expressed this intention this Friday at a press conference after participating in the La Toja-Vínculo Atlántico Forum held in the Spanish town of O Grove (northwest), where he stressed that Your stay in Spain is temporary.
When asked when he plans to return to his country, he indicated that as soon as possible, when democracy can be recovered.
Shortly after that he remembered that January 10 is the constituent date scheduled for the inauguration of the president after the July 28 electionsand hopes that that day he can assume the popular will expressed at the polls by eight million Venezuelans.
“I am going to go on January 10 to take office as president-elect of Venezuela”he then stressed.
Regarding the future that the current president, Nicolás Maduro, may have, commented that it will be “whatever he wants”.
“I don’t get involved there,” he added to later point out, given the hypothesis that Maduro can remain freely in Venezuela, that “whatever he wants if he accepts the conditions and respects the Constitution.”
Given the comparisons with what he experienced in his day, he also opposition Juan Guaidówho was recognized by several countries, including the United States and the European Union, as interim president of Venezuela, said that the situations are different, since he was elected by the Assembly and he has the support of the polls.
González Urrutia, who arrived in Madrid at the beginning of September to request asylum after denouncing electoral fraud in his country, explained that he had to abandon it in the face of political persecution with “unspeakable pressures and extreme threats” to him. and his familyin which he assured that it has been the most difficult and demanding chapter of his life.
2024-10-04 20:24:29