They demand that the Spanish government clarify its role in the “coercion” of González by the Maduro regime

Spain’s opposition is demanding that Pedro Sánchez’s government clarify the role of his administration in the “coercion” of Nicolás Maduro’s regime against opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia to sign a document recognizing the Chavista as the winner of the elections, which was signed at the residence of the European country’s ambassador in Caracas.

González Urrutia said on Wednesday that he signed a document before leaving Venezuela, presented by representatives of the Maduro regime under the threat that if he did not do so he would have to “face the consequences,” a “coercion” that in his opinion nullifies the text.

Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Maduro-controlled National Assembly, showed photos of González Urrutia signing the document at the Spanish ambassador’s residence, which also included Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez.

Faced with this situation, the Popular Party, the main opposition to Sánchez’s government, stressed that it wants to know “if the ambassador in Venezuela was present during the threats reported by Edmundo González” or “if on the contrary he left the room to let Maduro’s envoys do their thing.”

The deputy secretary general of the PP, Esteban González Pons, expressed his concern regarding the incident on X. “Delcy Rodriguez coerced, blackmailed and pressured the president-elect of Venezuela at the residence of the Spanish ambassador?! What a disgrace. We want the truth” claimed González Pons in a message on the social network X.

And he added: “What criminal scheme is Sánchez’s government involved in? Torture in the embassy? It was not humanity, but complicity.”

The party’s spokesperson in the Senate, Alicia García, described the episode as “a shameless act of submission to Chavismo” on the part of the Spanish government and accused it of being “in cahoots” with the Venezuelan regime.

“Anti-democratic misdeed”

For her part, the deputy spokesperson for the Popular Party Group in Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, denounced the “coercion, blackmail, threats and dirty play against the president-elect of Venezuela at the residence of the Spanish Ambassador in Caracas.”

“What an anti-democratic misdeed. What a colossal scandal,” he wrote in X.

In addition to the Spanish opposition, various sectors in Venezuela have also questioned the role of the Spanish government in “coercing” Edmundo González.

“The Spanish government opened the doors of its diplomatic residence in Caracas to the brothers Jorge and Delcy Rodríguez so that they could extort Edmundo González, the president-elect of Venezuela. Very serious. Unacceptable. The Sánchez government is an accomplice to tyranny,” said Venezuelan journalist Orlando Avendaño.

Venezuelan sociologist Naky Soto, for her part, questioned whether Sánchez’s government supported the recording of González Urrutia while he was signing the document at the Spanish ambassador’s residence.

“The Spanish government owes Venezuelans an explanation of why it allowed the recording of an act of coercion in the home of its ambassador. It is obvious that @EdmundoGU’s asylum needed the regime’s blessing, but did Sánchez support the method by which it was achieved?” he wrote.

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