Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez This Friday he was proclaimed president-elect of Venezuelaas he believes is supported by the polls and a good part of the international community, and has asked for help from Spain so that his position is asserted and popular sovereignty is respected.
González He made that request in his speech at the La Toja-Atlantic Link Forum before an auditorium in which the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóoand the president of the get together, Alfonso Ruedawho along with the rest of those present showed solidarity with the Venezuelan representative with prolonged applause and affectionate greetings at the end of his speech.
After thanking Spain who welcomed him along with many other thousands of Venezuelans and remembered the ties of all kinds between both countries, has repeated that his departure from Venezuela It is “only temporary.”
It is your turn to “express yourself without ties”
But he has explained that he has been forced to face political persecution with “unspeakable pressures and extreme threats” to him and his family in what he has assured has been the most difficult and demanding chapter of his life.
Now he has said that it is his turn to express himself without ties and denounce a regime like that of Nicolas Maduro that “intimidates, forces society to maintain a forced silence and maintains a communication curfew” that is somewhat cushioned thanks to digital journalism and social networks.
González has drawn the situation of his country: “On one side is democracy and justice; on the other, authoritarianism and abuse.
But there are not two in Venezuela. There is only one, the democratic one, supported by millions of votes obtained last July 28 and which has precisely demonstrated after that exemplary civic day, how deeply rooted the democratic culture is in the soul of the Venezuelan.”
Raising his voice is what he has said corresponds to him from the responsibility conferred on him by his character as “elected president, thus recognized – he said – by millions of Venezuelans, eight million to be exact, and by a good part of the international community.” .
Núñez Feijóo: “I am a Venezuelan”
At the same event, the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóohas expressed solidarity with the fight for freedom of the people of Venezuela and the opposition leader Edmundo González, proclaiming himself as one of them: “I am a Venezuelan.”
Feijóo has stressed that “the attraction of liberal democracy is too strong to be stifled by the autocrat or whoever has the vocation to be one.”
“Here it is to prove it Edmundo González Urrutiaelected president of Venezuela”, he added, addressing the Venezuelan opposition leader.
Given the existing situation in Venezuela, Feijóo has stressed that “the desire for freedom is not extinguished no matter how much the desire is hidden, results are falsified or dissidents are persecuted.”
He later referred to the speech of the former president of USA John F. Kennedy in front of the wall Berlin in 1963 in which he proclaimed “I am a Berliner.”
“With due humility, I want to proclaim from the island of The Toja that I am a Venezuelan. I think all of you are Venezuelans. Any people that fights to obtain the freedom that we enjoy deserves to be considered one of ours and we one of theirs,” he said.
To Feijóono democrat can be alien to the fight for freedom anywhere in the world. EFE
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