The Diplomat
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López said yesterday, during an interview on Canal Sur, that he hopes former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is trying to convince Nicolás Maduro to “make the right decision to leave power”.
López put forward two hypotheses about Rodríguez Zapatero’s silence since the 28 July presidential elections in Venezuela. “There are those who say that his silence is because he is making arrangements so that the Puebla group does not recognise the results of the people and Edmundo González,” said the opposition leader.
The opposition leader, however, put forward a second scenario, according to which he would be “making efforts so that Nicolás Maduro understands the reality he is facing and hands over power”. In this sense, López expressed his hope that it would be the latter “because the former would be unforgivable”.
