Eduardo González
The People’s Party is going to send a parliamentary observation delegation to the Venezuelan presidential elections on July 28, at the invitation of Edmundo González Urrutia, candidate of the main opposition coalition, Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), and the opposition leader María Corina Machado.
“We have been invited by Edmundo González, presidential candidate of the democratic opposition, and by María Corina Machado, leader of the democratic opposition, so that a delegation from the People’s Party of Spain will be present next Sunday, July 28, in the presidential elections,” announced yesterday the PP spokesperson in Congress, Miguel Tellado, during the event 'Spain before the different electoral processes in Latin America', organized by the Parliamentary Group and the Reformismo21 Foundation in the Congress of Deputies.
The delegation will be made up of himself, the general secretary of the Parliamentary Group, Macarena Montesinos; the deputy spokesperson, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, and the PP spokesperson for Ibero-America in the Foreign Affairs Commission of Congress, Belén Hoyo.
“We will be there to show our support and all our support (…), carefully observing the course of the elections together with the rest of the international community and unequivocally denouncing any infraction, any authoritarian movement,” he continued, in the presence of the former president of the National Assembly of Venezuela (2016-2020) Dinorah Figuera and the former mayor of Caracas Antonio Ledezma.
The Venezuelan elections represent a “definitive opportunity” to “bury a too long period,” but “Chavismo is doing everything in its power to stop the inevitable,” he warned. “We want to encourage the leaders of the democratic movement to persevere in the defense of their great cause, which is also our cause, and we want to tell Chavismo that it has to respect the result of elections that must be free and democratic,” he added.
One of the participants in the delegation, Álvarez de Toledo, accused the Government of Pedro Sánchez of not having been “up to the task” in Venezuela and of having managed the humanitarian crisis in this country with “a mixture of apathy and a serious point of hypocrisy”, because “they are not lifting a finger in defense of democracy and the transition in Venezuela.”
Likewise, she denounced the “unacceptable complicity” of former president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero with Nicolás Maduro and accused the Executive of being “tough with dead dictators,” in reference to Franco, but “soft with living dictators.”
In addition to the PP, the Venezuelan opposition has invited parliamentarians, parties and former presidents from Europe and Latin America to act as observers in the elections, after the Venezuelan Government revoked the presence of the EU Electoral Observation Mission (EOM).
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