Spanish conservative leader asks the Government to bring Maduro before the International Criminal Court

The Spanish opposition leader, the conservative Alberto Núñez Feijóo, asked the Government of socialist Pedro Sánchez to denounce the Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro before the International Criminal Court and issued a warning to companies that collaborate with “autocratic regimes.”

“We are going to ask the Government of Spain to denounce Nicolás Maduro before the International Criminal Court, to denounce him, to be consistent,” said Feijóo during a forum organized by the Popular Party with the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who is in Caracas and intervened via videoconference.

“History will treat the timid, the equidistant, very badly,” said the conservative leader, who criticized the former socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, mediator in the departure from Caracas of the former opposition candidate Edmundo González, who has requested political asylum in Spain.

“Zapatero has worked for Edmundo to leave, I will work for Maduro to leave,” said Feijóo. “The one who has to go is Maduro, not Edmundo González,” he insisted.

urgent call

Both Feijóo and Machado demanded more determined international action because, according to the Venezuelan opposition, the solution to the Venezuelan conflict is “the priority that Western democracies should have.”

The Venezuelan conflict, he said, “must be an issue of internal politics because it affects national interests in Colombia, Brazil, the United States or Spain.”

Notice to companies
Machado called for attacking the “financial flows” that support the Maduro Government and drew a profile of post-Chavista Venezuela with a State “at the service” of the citizen, an important role for small and medium-sized businesses and a country converted into the ” energy hub” of the Americas.

Feijóo took the opportunity to warn “companies that collaborate with Maduro that they are wrong. Companies that create wealth in a country are always welcome, but those that finance autocratic regimes are not working for the people or to create wealth.”

In a democracy, “a politician knows how to distinguish very well between those companies that do their job and those that finance dictatorships,” he stated.

Message for Machado

For this reason, he said, addressing Machado, from Europe “we appreciate” a “message of legal certainty, of freedom of competitiveness, of efficiency, to reestablish a healthy economy.”

Machado, who referred to Edmundo González as the constitutional president of Venezuela, called to support the mobilization called for next Saturday in different capitals of the world.

“It is time to mobilize,” he said.

The forum closes a session organized by the Popular Party in which it has reaffirmed its commitment to the Venezuelan opposition, bringing together in Madrid several opponents of the Nicolás Maduro regime who reside in Spain, among them Edmundo González Urrutia.

González Urrutia, who arrived in Spain at the beginning of September to request asylum after denouncing fraud in the presidential elections on July 28, attended a meeting this Thursday in which the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, participated, with whom he met briefly, in his first contact since the European Parliament recognized the Venezuelan opposition as president-elect.

Madrid / EFE