González claimed that Maduro had carried out a coup d’état with his inauguration.
Edmundo González remains in exile in Spain.
After learning that he would not return to Venezuela to take office as president, the cOpposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia sent a message through his social networks the same day that Nicolás Maduro was sworn in as re-elected president without evidence to validate his victory and before a very small number of world leaders.
“Today in Caracas Maduro has violated the Constitution and the sovereign will of Venezuelans expressed on July 28; carry out a coup d’état“He crowns himself a dictator,” said González.
Despite giving up on entering Venezuela, González assured that he continues “working the conditions for my entry into Venezuela and assuming as mandated by the Constitution and as ordered by the people, the Presidency of the Republic and the command in chief of the National Armed Forces“.
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Maria Corina Machadothe leader of the opposition movement, had warned moments before that It would be dangerous for the candidate to return to the countryafter the regime will block Venezuelan airspace and close the borders with Colombia.
“I am very close to Venezuela, I am ready for safe entry and in the opportune moment I will assert the votes that represent the recovery of our democracy“We are coordinating all the essential factors to guarantee the prompt return to freedom,” he added.
Furthermore, he spoke directly to the members of the Armed Forces whom he “ordered”ignore illegal orders that they be given to him by those who confiscate power and prepare my security conditions to assume the position of President of the Republic.”
“I express my gratitude to the governments that recognize me as president-elect, to those that have not done so, I remind you that at this key hour In the fight for freedom there is no room for neutrality,” González concluded.
Source: Integrated Information System
