The former president of the Spanish Government Felipe Gonzalez met this Friday with the opposition candidate in the recent elections in Venezuela, Edmundo Gonzalezand called him “president-elect.”
The Felipe Gonzalez Foundation He reported on this meeting with a photograph of both of them and a text in which he refers to Edmundo González Urrutia as “president-elect of Venezuela” and recalls that they both met in Ginebra (Switzerland) in 1975, during the period when the former socialist president was in hiding, before winning the Spanish elections.
At today’s meeting, according to the Felipe González Foundation, Edmundo González Urrutia ratified his intention to “continue fighting to achieve a transition to democracy in Venezuela” while Maria Corina Machado “continue to resist in the country so that together they can assert the popular sovereignty expressed at the polls” in the elections of July 28.
Edmundo González Urrutia, who arrived in Spain last Sunday to seek asylum, also met this Friday with the former president of the Spanish Government Mariano Rajoyfrom the conservative party PP.
On Thursday he was received in Moncloa by the President of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, who told him that Spain will continue working “in favour of democracy, dialogue and fundamental rights” of the people of the South American country. EFE (I)
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