2024-09-27 22:10:45
Edmundo González, the Venezuelan opposition leader, wants to continue with his “political action” from Spain, where he received asylum last September 9. After a few weeks in which he has kept a low profile with few announcements and other discreet meetings with Spanish leaders, González will begin to implement his public plan this Saturday, according to sources close to him. In the afternoon, he will participate in the protest for “independence in Venezuela” that will take place in Puerta del Sol in Madrid. The Mayor of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, will also be present. It will be the first time that González will appear publicly in Spain in a protest action. On Monday he plans to meet Santiago Abascal, the leader of Vox, and on Friday he will speak at the La Toja Conference, which King Felipe VI will have inaugurated the day before.
The Venezuelan politician, with a diplomatic career, these days has many meetings with the opposition living in Madrid and people involved in the future of the Latin American country, in addition to video conferences with María Corina Machado. He wants to reduce as much as possible the obstacle that exists by distance and the decision is to combine the pressure on Nicolás Maduro’s government that they can do from inside the country and from outside.
The Venezuelan president is eager to present the results of the July 28 elections, which, like many countries around the world, González has won. In fact, the Government of Spain has joined a few hours ago to a joint declaration, which is also signed by thirty other countries, which ensures that the “public electoral registers” indicate that the opposition leader received “the majority of votes”.
González, 75 years old, requested asylum from the Government of Spain because of the political and social conflict that Venezuela has experienced since the elections and because of the fear of losing his life. In the first days in Madrid he was completely out of the limelight until he met Pedro Sánchez in La Moncloa. Then came the photos with former presidents Mariano Rajoy (PP), Felipe González (PSOE) and José María Aznar (PP). He also held a meeting with Alberto Núñez Feijóo and other relevant Spanish politicians, who had requested that their meetings not be made public.
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At the Conference of La Toja, next Friday, Feijóo will also compete with Edmundo González. Latin American politics will take the floor right after the leader of the PP and before the round table on the New political cycles in Europe and the US, in which the former minister Arancha González Laya, the former ambassador of Washington to the EU Anthony Gardner and the former Minister of Defense Dolores de Cospedal .
The PP has actively supported the Venezuelan opposition in recent years and quickly recognized González as “President-elect”, a step that the Spanish government has not yet made official.
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