MP Davila arrested after interview with Adnkronos –

Williams Davila, a Venezuelan politician and current deputy to the National Assembly of Venezuela for the Action party, was arrested in Caracas a few hours after the interview given to Adnkronos. An arrest that caused a stir at the Milton Friedman Institute, which said it was “shocked”. In the interview, the deputy had launched an appeal to the Italian government and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, asking for Rome’s support “in the process we are carrying out so that sovereignty is respected and Venezuela can, finally, be at peace”.

“The international community,” the Venezuelan parliamentarian, a member of the Milton Friedman Institute, had stressed, can apply pressure from outside “so that the National Electoral Council shows the minutes it claims to have. Prime Minister Meloni knows that the will of the people and their sovereignty must be respected, and I am sure she would support what I say. What happened on July 28 was an electoral phenomenon that had not been seen since the last century. People went to the polls en masse and voted for Edmundo Gonzalez as the new president of Venezuela.” The Maduro regime, he added, “must know that no one here will rest until popular sovereignty and justice prevail and are respected.”

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Edmondo Cirielli, commented: “The Venezuelan deputy Williams Davila, who with an appeal to our Government and Prime Minister Meloni had asked for Italy’s support so that sovereignty in Venezuela would be respected and the country could finally achieve peace, has been arrested. In every healthy democracy, popular sovereignty and justice are essential and inseparable pillars to guarantee the rule of law. And in Venezuela they have evidently been disregarded”. According to the Fdi representative, Davila’s arrest “represents the denial of the fundamental right of a people to regain their freedom after 25 years of oppression and poverty and would have liked to do so through free elections. But the lack of clarity on the votes, which took place in a climate of extreme tension, and on their outcome – as denounced by the opposition and all international observers – once again prevailed over the will of a people to elect, free from any conditioning, their president”.