Venezuela’s Parliament Pushes for Spanish Diplomatic Break: A New Chapter in the Maduro Era

• The agreement asks the Maduro Administration to evaluate, “in a timely manner, the rupture of relations” with the Kingdom of Spain | Photo: EFE

The Parliament of Venezuela, controlled by Chavismo, approved on Tuesday, October 8, an agreement that urges Nicolás Maduro to break diplomatic, consular and commercial relations with Spain, in response to the decision of the Spanish Congress to recognize the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia -exiled in Madrid- as winner of the presidential elections on July 28.

The agreement asks the Maduro Administration to evaluate, “in a peremptory time, the rupture of relations” with the Kingdom of Spain, as well as a “reciprocal action for the rude and interfering proposal adopted in the Congress of Deputies” of the European country against “Venezuelan institutions.”

Furthermore, the approved document “categorically” rejects the “disastrous resolution promoted by the fascist right of the Spanish Congress,” which it urges to respect “the decision of the Venezuelan people who sovereignly elected (…) Nicolás Maduro as re-elected president.”

#8Oct | The National Assembly approved this Tuesday an agreement to urge Nicolás Maduro to break diplomatic, consular and commercial relations with Spain.

This agreement arises after the Spanish Congress recognized Edmundo González as the winner of the elections… pic.twitter.com/iaoH0h5SqK

— El Diario (@eldiario) October 8, 2024

This agreement is approved almost a month after, on September 11, the president of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, requested an immediate meeting from the Foreign Policy Commission to prepare a resolution that asks “the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to immediately break all relations” with the European country.

Photo: EFE/ Miguel Gutiérrez

Then, the deputy requested that the resolution establish that “all commercial activities of Spanish companies be immediately ceased,” in response to what he considered “the most brutal outrage” by Spain against Venezuela “since the times” in which The Caribbean country fought for its independence, in reference to the decision of Congress.

Resolution to recognize Edmundo González

Last September, the Spanish Congress, with the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) voting against, approved a non-law proposal promoted by the Popular Party (PP) in which it asks the government to recognize González as president of Venezuela. Urrutia, who arrived in Madrid on the 8th of that month to seek asylum from the persecution he claims to have suffered in his country.

Photo: EFE

However, the government of Pedro Sánchez, for the moment, has not recognized the opponent as president-elect, as requested by the parties that voted in favor, including the opposition Popular Party (PP) and VOX.

Maduro’s controversial re-election was proclaimed by the National Electoral Council (CNE) based on results that are still unknown in a disaggregated manner, and is rejected and designated as “fraudulent” by the majority opposition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – , which claims the victory of González Urrutia.

With information from EFE

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