- José Manuel Albares reacted to the request of the Venezuelan Parliament to break relations with Spain | Photo: EFE
The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, demanded this Wednesday that the Venezuelan government respect Spanish institutions, when asked about the agreement approved by the Venezuelan National Assembly to urge Spain to “abolish the monarchy”.
“When we always address other countries, and talk about the institutions of other countries, we do so with respect and we demand the same respect for all our institutions from the rest of the international community,” Albares responded in a press conference in Madrid.
On October 8, the Venezuelan Parliament approved a political agreement in which it urges the government of Spain to abolish the monarchy, considering it an institution linked to corruption and an expression of the extreme right, in response to the decision of the Spanish Congress to recognize Edmundo González as elected president of Venezuela.
The agreement that urges Maduro to break relations with Spain
The Venezuelan Parliament, controlled by Chavismo, approved on Tuesday, October 8, an agreement that urges Nicolás Maduro to break diplomatic, consular and commercial relations with Spain.
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.”
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.
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.
Spain’s recognition of Edmundo González
In September, the Spanish Congress, voting against the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE), approved a non-legal proposal promoted by the Popular Party (PP) in which it asks the government to recognize González Urrutia as president of Venezuela, who He arrived in Madrid on the 8th of that month to seek asylum from the persecution he claims to have suffered in his country.
However, the government of Pedro Sánchez, for the moment, has not recognized González 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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