With 177 votes in favor, 166 against and one abstention, the Spanish Congress recognizes González Urrutia as president-elect. The proposal promoted by the PP also agrees to ask the Venezuelan authorities to stop the repression and to call on the Carter Center to appear in the plenary session.
The Spanish Congress approved on 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); with which a majority of 177 seats was achieved 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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This initiative urges the Executive headed by Pedro Sánchez to lead Spain’s recognition of González Urrutia in European institutions and international bodies with a view to ensuring the inauguration of the Venezuelan opposition leader on January 10, 2025.
The group also calls for the administration of President Nicolás Maduro to immediately cease repression of peaceful protests and release all political prisoners, as well as to promote the “reinstatement” of sanctions against government leaders and support the appearance of the Carter Center to detail its conclusions on the elections, among other things.
Although non-legislative proposals have no practical or legal effects, they do have effects in terms of portraying the position of the Chamber, especially on issues that mark the political debate, as is the case of Venezuela.
Sánchez, who is absent from the debate because he is finishing an official trip to China today, explained that Spain will not recognise Edmundo González as president-elect for now but will work for unity in the EU that will allow a margin of mediation until the end of the year in the search for a solution.
With information from EFE / The Objective / SER chain
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