Edmundo González says he will return to Venezuela on January 10 to take office as president

The Venezuelan opposition leader, Edmundo González
, has stated this Friday, October 4, 2024, that On January 10, 2025, he will return to his country to take office as president.

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González expressed this intention at a press conference after participating in the La Toja-Vínculo Atlántico Forum. The announcement comes after the candidate who participated in the electoral elections on July 28, 2024 He will declare himself as the elected president of his country, as he believes is supported by the polls and a good part of the international community.

In addition, he asked for help from Spain, the country where he remains in exile, to enforce his choice.

Edmundo González made the request after the Carter Center, American electoral observer organization in the presidential elections of July 28, will show “original” voting records on Wednesday that point to its electoral victory.

“There are not two Venezuelas”: Edmundo González

González described the situation in his country: “On one side is democracy and justice; on the other, authoritarianism and abuse. But there are not two Venezuelas. There is only one, the democratic one, backed by millions of votes obtained on July 28 and that has precisely demonstrated, after that exemplary civic day, how deeply rooted democratic culture is in the soul of the Venezuelan.”

Raising his voice is what, as he commented, corresponds to him from the responsibility conferred on him by his character as “president-elect, thus recognized,” he said, by millions of Venezuelans, eight million to be exact (in those presidential elections), and for good part of the international community.

As we approach the three months of the July 28 elections, he stressed that The world knows and recognizes the original minutes which, he noted, have been shown in a transparent manner.

Why did Edmundo González leave Venezuela?

Edmundo González arrived in Spain on September 8, 2024 to request asylumafter a restraining order was issued against him. From this place, where he remains in exile to this day, he stated that he left Venezuela after suffering threats “to the closest part of my family life“.

“My departure from the country is only temporary. But that didn’t stop me from being forced to leave Venezuela due to unspeakable pressures and extreme threats that touched even the closest part of my family life,” he said in a speech at the La Toja Forum.

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