Edmundo González: “I have not been coerced by the Spanish Government or by the ambassador” | EUROtoday

Edmundo González issued an announcement on Thursday during which he stated he had not been pressured by the Spanish authorities to go away Venezuela: “I have not been coerced by the Spanish government or by the Spanish ambassador in Venezuela, Ramón Santos. The diplomatic efforts carried out had the sole purpose of facilitating my departure from the country, without exerting any kind of pressure on me,” says the textual content of the opposition candidate who gained the elections towards Nicolás Maduro, who doesn’t wish to acknowledge his defeat and has tightened his grip on energy regardless of proof that he dedicated fraud.

The PP, the opposition occasion in Spain, had accused Pedro Sánchez's authorities hours earlier of manoeuvring in favour of Chavismo to safe the exile of Edmundo González and divide the opposition. González, in a really forceful letter, denies that this had occurred: “The Spanish Government undertook to guarantee my safety during the journey to the Spanish Armed Forces plane, as well as my arrival in Spain, as it happened. These measures had the main purpose of allowing the continuation of the processing of the asylum application before the Spanish State, under conditions of security and respect for my rights.” The Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, thanked the opposition chief for his phrases. “Thank you.” @EdmundoGU for defending the reality towards slander and insults towards Spain and its international service. There are instances to be in opposition @NunezFeijoo @ppopular and others during which we should be one nation. Spain is dedicated to democracy and human rights,” he wrote on social media.

Edmundo González's departure from the nation on September 7 had been shrouded in thriller. Harassed by the Chavista justice system, the opposition chief determined inside days to go away for Spain. On Wednesday, nonetheless, it was realized that as a way to be allowed to go away the Spanish embassy in Caracas and board a airplane, the Rodríguez brothers, Maduro's two foremost political operators, pressured him to signal a doc during which he accepted the choice of the Venezuelan Supreme Court, which in a decision decreed that the present president had gained the elections, regardless of all of the proof that this was not the case. In that doc, Edmundo additionally promised to not function as an elected president in exile. Chavismo launched photos during which the Chavista leaders and Edmundo might be seen signing that letter on the residence of the Spanish ambassador. Photographs of Ramón Santos accompanying the opposition chief to the steps of the airplane have been additionally launched.

The revelation brought about a shock in Venezuela, but in addition in Spain, the place the problem has grow to be a matter of nationwide coverage of the primary order. The deputy secretary of Institutional Affairs of the PP, Esteban González Pons, stated in an interview on Es Radio that the Government of Spain has been concerned in what he describes as a “coup d’état.” Pons stated that the Sánchez administration had “coerced and sent the elected president into exile.” “The Government of Spain has been a necessary collaborator.” The Government has responded that it restricted itself to facilitating the departure of Edmundo, who at the moment was topic to an arrest warrant issued by the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office, within the arms of Chavismo. Government sources point out that Albares spoke as much as 4 instances in individual with Edmundo González — twice when he was in Caracas and twice on the airplane on the best way to Madrid — to make sure that he had the free will to go to Spain, that that was what he had determined. González’s response was unequivocal, in response to this info. This assertion by Edmundo has come to verify that this was so.

Jorge Rodríguez, who has begun to mockingly name González Urrutia “the coerced one”, had challenged him to disclaim his accusations in regards to the stress he obtained from the President of Parliament and his sister, the Vice President Delcy Rodríguez. This afternoon he gave a press convention during which he introduced audio recordings of only a few seconds of the dialog recorded through the assembly that they had on the eve of the opposition chief's departure into exile on the residence of the Spanish ambassador.

In the fragments with distorted voice results, in response to him, González Urrutia's “interlocutor” with the Chavista authorities speaks, which Rodríguez has most well-liked to not reveal. “There is no attempt to institute a plastic, confetti or paper president,” one hears, which for Rodríguez is proof that González has renounced claiming to be proclaimed president after having denounced the fraud after which Maduro's supposed victory within the elections was introduced.

“We maintained contact with an interlocutor of González Urrutia, at their request because he had expressed his desire to leave the country,” stated Maduro’s political operator. “This is nothing other than a capitulation of a certain aspiration of the people defeated on July 28. It is a surrender.”

Rodríguez insisted on presenting the small print of the scene. The bottle of Chivas Regal supplied to these current, the homeopathic tea introduced by the Vice President and which he most well-liked to drink, and the sweets supplied by the ambassador. In reality, he emphasised that Santos' participation was that of a number with the drinks and leisure for the assembly held by the Rodríguez, González Urrutia and the interlocutor, though he had beforehand stated that if González had been coerced, the ambassador could be a witness. “Edmundo González bit the hand that the Spanish Government extended to him.”

The head of Parliament assured that through the dialog they spoke of the plans that “fascist sectors” needed to assault Maduro, the Vice President and the Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello. “We have not found evidence that you (González Urrutia) were involved in these events, but we do have a lot of evidence of Mrs. María Corina Machado and her inner circle who encourage, plan and finance these events and he, so blatantly, told me that yes, he knew about it.” He didn’t current any audios of this a part of the dialog. He additionally didn’t reply whether or not these current have been conscious that they have been being recorded.

Rodríguez added that there’s a second doc during which González Urrutia asks that his property be revered, which he additionally threatens to reveal. “The gentleman has said that he is leaving the country to continue fighting for the freedom of the prisoners. But that remains in the speech, because there is a second document in it that asks that his property and his home and that of his family and friends be respected. In none of the lines of that document do requests for the prisoners appear. Do not force me to publish it.”