Why did the AN suspend the debate on Spain?

The National Assembly, controlled by Chavismo, suspended this Thursday the debate on the breaking of relations with Spain due to “issues on the parliamentary agenda,” said the president of the Legislature, Jorge Rodríguez, who did not explain when it is expected. address this issue in plenary.

“It has to do with issues on the parliamentary agenda (…) simply the parliamentary agenda,” said Rodriguez in a press conference after the legislative session ended, which did not include the point in the debate or any mention of the diplomatic tension between Caracas and Madrid, despite the fact that it was planned to do so, as announced on Wednesday.

He explained that the issue was left off the agenda “due to the urgency” of “an unforeseen event” due to the approval by the European Parliament of a recognition of Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia as the country’s president-elect.

Rodríguez believes that this motion by the European Parliament, rejected by the Venezuelan Parliament, has “no real impact” and was an action promoted by “fascists.”

The Chavista spokesman had said on Wednesday that the AN would approve on Thursday the agreement with which it will urge the government of Nicolás Maduro to “evaluate” the breaking of diplomatic and commercial relations with Spain, in response to the decision of the Spanish Congress to recognize González Urrutia as president-elect.

The legislative project was presented on Tuesday, just five days after Rodríguez requested its drafting, considering that the recognition of the Spanish Congress, with the vote against the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), is “a rude and interventionist attitude” against “Venezuelan constitutionality.”

On September 11, Congress approved a motion sponsored by the Popular Party (PP) calling on the government to recognize González Urrutia as president of Venezuela. Urrutia arrived in Madrid on September 8 to seek asylum from the persecution he claims to have suffered in his country.

According to the draft agreement, the Venezuelan legislature rejects “the disastrous resolution promoted by the fascist right in Congress” of the European country, and urges Spanish parliamentarians to “respect the decision of the Venezuelan people who sovereignly elected Maduro as “re-elected president” in the elections of July 28, a result that has been questioned by numerous countries..