Spain maintains its position of not recognizing Edmundo González’s victory

The Spanish government has so far maintained its position of not recognising the opposition’s victory Edmundo Gonzalez in the Venezuelan presidential elections held on July 28.

During a speech he gave in the Senate on Tuesday, José Manuel Albares Bueno, who serves as Minister of Foreign Affairs, bets on a peaceful solution in the country, at the same time that he criticized the political party of Alberto Núñez Feijoó to take advantage of the Venezuelan crisis to “try to erode“to Pedro Sanchez.

Albares praised the work that the former president of the Spanish government has been carrying out, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, against the administration of Nicolás Maduro. From his point of view, his help has served to free many prisoners, a point recognized by the candidate Edmundo González Urrutia and the opposition leader, María Corina Machadoas highlighted by El Mundo.

He also indicated that he has maintained new contacts with Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition.Yesterday I spoke with Foreign Minister Yván Gil and in the afternoon I was in contact, not for the first time, with María Corina Machado and Edmundo González.“, said.

He also reiterated the request that the National Electoral Council (CNE) show the minutes of the electoral tables to resolve the political tension that the country is experiencing.

For her part, the spokesperson for the People’s Party (PP) in the Spanish Senate, Alicia Garciaraised his voice to accuse the Executive of being “missing” and maintaining a “complicit” silence, since to date it has not condemned the repression that Venezuela is suffering, a country in which there have been more than 2 thousand arrests, among them 100 children, according to the figures presented in a complaint by the UN diplomatic mission, all of this combined with multiple cases of torture and disappearances.

It should be remembered that the European Union (EU) has requested “an independent verification of electoral registers“in Venezuela, suggesting that it be carried out by an entity with great international recognition.

Meanwhile, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Joseph Borrelldemanded “an end to repression” in Venezuela.