The delegation of parliamentarians from the Popular Party (PP) of Spain that arrived in Venezuela this Friday, for the presidential elections, was detained at the Maiquetía International Airport, according to information provided by the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, on his X account.
“I have just been informed that the PP delegation made up of 10 deputies, senators and MEPs is being held up at Caracas airport,” he posted on the social network.
MEP Esteban González Pons and PP spokesman in Congress, Miguel Tellado, travelled to Caracas on Friday leading a delegation made up of Macarena Montesinos, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo and Belén Hoyo.
The parliamentarians attended at the invitation of presidential candidate González Urrutia and leader María Corina Machado.
In turn, Alejandro Bongiovanni, member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, reported that upon arriving at Maiquetía International Airport he was deported by Venezuelan authorities.
“I am no longer incommunicado. I am being deported. I was put on a flight to Panama,” he wrote on his X account.
Incident on Copa flight boarded by former presidents bound for Venezuela
“The Foreign Ministry has summoned the representative of the Diplomatic Mission of Venezuela in Panama to the Bolívar Palace (the headquarters of the ministry),” said the Panamanian foreign minister, Javier Martínez-Acha, on his X account, citing the Panamanian president’s publication where he reported that the plane was not allowed to leave.
Later, in a new publication and after the former presidents had already left the plane, Martínez-Acha reported that, through the Minister of Transportation of Venezuela, Ramón Celestino Velásquez, they were informed that from that moment on there would be “no impediments” to the flights.
“The Panamanian Foreign Ministry has been informed that the Venezuelan Minister of Transport has assured that from now on there will be no impediment to Copa flights in both directions. We are analyzing this incident very carefully,” the Panamanian Minister of Foreign Affairs wrote in X.
The information generated in the account is false. @JoseRaulMulino and from the @InacVzla It is confirmed that air operations are running normally. Currently, the Flight Radar can show the 3 Copa Airlines flights operating in Venezuelan airspace. pic.twitter.com/Ur6ztlVSPy
— Ramon Celestino Velasquez Araguayan (@rvaraguayan) July 26, 2024
With information from EFE
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