Eduardo González
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has described this Wednesday as “completely unacceptable” the motions approved the previous day by the National Assembly of Venezuela in which it urges the Government of Spain to abolish the monarchy and urges the Executive of Nicolás Maduro to break relations with our country.
This past Tuesday, the National Assembly of Venezuela approved a motion by the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in which it calls on the Spanish government to abolish the monarchy, “which has served no purpose other than corruption, chaos, and the expression of the far right,” according to the president of the House, Jorge Rodríguez.
“Of course, these statements are completely unacceptable,” said Albares during a press conference at the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Madrid. “When we address other countries and institutions of other countries, we do so with respect for their institutions and we demand that respect from the rest of the international community,” he added.
This proposal by the General Assembly, which responds to the decision of the Spanish Congress to recognize the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the president-elect of Venezuela after the presidential elections of July 28, officially won by Nicolás Maduro, could be followed by other motions to ask for the independence of Catalonia and the Basque Country, explained Rodríguez himself.
“The Agreement is approved in rejection of the rude and interventionist decision adopted in the Spanish Congress to ignore the popular victory of Nicolás Maduro as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” declared the National Assembly through the social network X.
Separately, the Venezuelan Assembly also approved an agreement in which the Government of Nicolás Maduro is urged to evaluate, “in a peremptory time, the breaking of relations” with Spain and to consider a “reciprocal action for the rude and interventionist proposition adopted in the Congress of Deputies by the Venezuelan institutionality.” The text “categorically rejects the disastrous resolution promoted by the fascist right of Congress” and asks that “the decision of the Venezuelan people who sovereignly elected Nicolás Maduro as re-elected president” be respected.
