José Manuel Albares received Edmundo González Urrutia at the headquarters of the Spanish Foreign Ministry more than a week after his arrival in that country. Previously, he was in the Congress of Deputies with Alberto Núñez Feijóo
Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares received opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia on Tuesday, September 17, after his visit to the Congress of Deputies where he met with the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo.
Through the social networks A video was published of Albares and González Urrutia walking through various rooms of the Spanish Foreign Ministry headquarters with a message in which he says that they had an “excellent conversation” where they exchanged points of view on the current situation in Venezuela.
The talk also covered topics such as democracy, freedom and dialogue.
I have had an excellent conversation with @EdmundoGU in which we exchanged views on the current situation and democracy, freedom and dialogue in Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/z5FaAFuFNT
— José Manuel Albares (@jmalbares) September 17, 2024
Earlier, Nunez Feijoo He gave the Venezuelan politician a hug and told him that they are committed to recognizing him as the elected president of Venezuela.
The leader of the PP pointed out that the party has promoted another initiative in the Senate to recognise González Urrutia’s victory in the last elections of 28 July. In addition, at the meeting, the Spanish leader insisted on the release of all political prisoners and the request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute President Nicolás Maduro.
He stressed that the Venezuelan opposition leader was received at the legislative headquarters of Spain because it is the seat of national sovereignty and, in addition to criticizing the lack of information about the Spaniards detained in Venezuela, he saw it as positive that the PSOE – in agreement with the statements of the Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell – speaks with “clarity” about what is happening in Venezuela.
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The Spanish Congress approved last Wednesday, September 11 the recognition of the opposition presidential candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, as president-elect of Venezuela, despite the refusal of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), currently in power represented by Pedro Sánchez.
The initiative, which was presented by the Popular Party (PP) bench, was supported in the Upper House by Vox, UPN, Coalición Canaria and the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), thus achieving a majority of 177 seats in favor of considering González Urrutia as president-elect versus 164 votes against and one abstention, that of the former Minister of Transport, José Luis Ábalos.
The approved text specifies that this “recognition is based on the repeated refusal of the Venezuelan electoral authorities to publish the results in a timely manner, the publication by the opposition of 83.5% of the verifiable minutes that demonstrate a categorical electoral result, and the official pronouncements of international institutions such as the Carter Center, the United Nations, and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, the Spaniard Josep Borrell.”
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