By The Diary
Sep 12, 2024, 09:39 AM EDT
The National Assembly (AN) of Venezuela, taken over by Chavismo, is preparing a resolution that it hopes to approve to call on Nicolás Maduro to break “all diplomatic, consular, economic and commercial relations” with Spain, after the approval of the Spanish Congress to recognize Edmundo González Urrutía as the elected president of the South American country.
At Wednesday’s session, the president of the pro-government AN, Jorge Rodríguez, asked the Foreign Policy Commission for an immediate meeting to create the resolution that the plenary “approves peremptorily” to ask “the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to immediately break all relations” with Spain.
“Let all representatives of the Spanish Government’s legation and all consulates and consuls leave here, and we will bring our own people from there, so they can stay with their murderers, their coup plotters, their fascists, their violent people,” he said.
Rodríguez also requested that the resolution establish that “all commercial activities of Spanish companies be immediately ceased,” in response to what he called “the most brutal attack” by Spain against Venezuela “since the times” when the country fought for its independence, in reference to the decision of Congress.
“People who do not even choose their president commit the barbarity of thinking that they can appoint the president of Venezuela (…) They should be ashamed that, in the 21st century, a person by blood rights is the one who appoints the president of the Government in Spain,” declared the head of the AN.
In his opinion, Spain “has become” a “refuge for murderers, fascists, coup plotters” and “violent people.”
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