Following the praise of the Venezuelan opposition leader González Urrutia to the Spanish government for facilitating his departure from Venezuela, he distances himself from the Popular Party, who have been his main sponsors, and denies through a statement any type of coercion by the Government of Spain or the Spanish ambassador to Venezuela, Ramón Santos.
In this way, the complaint made by the deputy spokesperson of the PP in the Congress of Deputies, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, where she expressed her “absolute stupor” and “repugnance” at the operation of “mafia extortion” and “blackmail” in the Spanish embassy in Venezuela, was made ridiculous after the denial made publicly by González Urrutia. adopted by the PP after its departure from Venezuela.
Álvarez de Toledo described as “deplorable” the role played by the Spanish Government “in a dirty operation of coercion and extortion against an elected president of a sovereign country; this operation took place in none other than the Embassy.”
For his part, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs urged the leader of the PP, Alberto Nuñez Feijóo, “to take a position as a country” in the face of this situation, and not to entrench itself as a party.
It is worth noting that the president of the right-wing Popular Party of Spain, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, received the former Venezuelan candidate Edmundo González Urrutia on September 17 and urged the Spanish government, headed by the socialist Pedro Sánchez, to recognize González Urrutia as the legitimate president of Venezuela.
