Pedro Sánchez says that Edmundo González is “a hero whom Spain will not abandon”

The President of the Government and Spanish socialist leader, Pedro Sánchez, emphasized this Saturday, September 7, 2024, that the presidential candidate of the Venezuelan opposition Edmundo González is “a hero whom Spain will not abandon”.

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Among the objectives of his government’s foreign policy, Sánchez mentioned protecting “the security and integrity of activists, journalists and political leaders, wherever they may be, in Russia, Palestine or Venezuela.”

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“Leaders like Edmundo González -he continued-, a hero whom Spain will not abandon“he said, referring to the Venezuelan opposition leader who claims to have won the recent elections in Venezuela against the current president, Nicolás Maduro.

The Spanish leader spoke on Saturday at the Federal Committee of the Socialists, the highest governing body of the party, where he stressed his party’s commitment to multilateral organisations and to “international legality” and democracy.

Government spokesperson Pilar Alegría already condemned last Tuesday “any attempt to curtail” the fundamental rights of all Venezuelansincluding opposition leaders, referring to the arrest warrant issued by the courts against Edmundo González, a candidate in the presidential elections of July 28.

Venezuelan prosecutors are investigating him for publishing voting records on the Internet that would give him the electoral victory, contrary to the official result, endorsed by the country’s Supreme Court, which grants victory to the current president, Nicolás Maduro.

Spain and many other countries have repeatedly called on the Venezuelan authorities to make the records public to corroborate the results.

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