Edmundo González shared photographs of the meeting on his social networks / Photo: Courtesy
The Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia was received on Thursday in Lisbon by the Prime Minister of Portugal, the conservative Luís Montenegro, and the Portuguese Foreign Minister, Paulo Rangel, a source from the Portuguese Foreign Ministry informed EFE this Friday.
The source specified that González Urrutia met with Rangel at the end of Thursday morning at the Palácio das Necessidades, headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, without giving more details about this meeting.
During his stay in the Portuguese capital, the Venezuelan opponent was also received by the head of the Portuguese Government, as González Urrutia himself revealed on his social networks.
“I had a productive agenda in Portugal,” he wrote on his Instagram profile, where he assured that, in the “long conversations” he had in these two meetings, the Portuguese Government reaffirmed “its commitment to plurality, human rights and respect to the will of the Venezuelan people”.
The meetings were deliberately not included in the official agendas of Montenegro and Rangel, the Foreign Ministry source said.
The Executive of Portugal does not recognize Nicolás Maduro as the re-elected president of Venezuela because the electoral records have not been published, but neither does it expressly recognize González Urrutia as the winner of the presidential elections of July 28.
The opposition leader has lived in Spain since September 8 after requesting political asylum.
Lisbon / EFE
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