Edmundo González participated in the Venezuelan protest in Madrid

Fuente: The National

The presidential candidate of the Venezuelan opposition, Edmundo González Urrutia, appeared briefly this Saturday, without actually intervening, in a protest in Madrid claiming his victory in the July 28 elections.

Two months after those elections in which the opposition maintains that there was fraud to give victory to Nicolás Maduro, thousands of people gathered in the Plaza de la Puerta de Sol in Madrid, the place of exile of numerous figures of the opposition.

“Edmundo González Urrutia, elected president of Venezuela, in Madrid!” shouted the presenter of the event when the 75-year-old candidate took the stage with a Venezuelan flag, without addressing an audience that greeted him with the cry of “! President, President!

What was Edmundo González’s arrival at the protest in Madrid like?

Gonzalez Urrutia He arrived at the demonstration heavily escortedgreeted some protesters, went on stage and before leaving took a photo with the president of the Madrid region, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, and with the president of the Popular Party (right-wing opposition), Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

The demonstration was part of a global mobilization of the opposition “for freedom”which in Spain was followed in cities such as Seville or Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

The person who did intervene in the Madrid demonstration was Antonio Ledezmaformer mayor of Caracas, who read a message from González Urrutia and attributed his failure to intervene “to severe aphonia.”

«Last July 28, The people issued a sovereign, clear and unappealable mandate in favor of change,” said Ledezma reading the candidate’s message.

“The defense of that mandate requires us to continue united and active in this fight until the end,” he added.

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