Edmundo González was honored at the La Toja-Vínculo Atlántico Forum in Spain

  • Oct, Thu, 2024
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The Venezuelan opponent Edmundo González, during the opening day of the La Toja-Vínculo Atlántico Forum held this Thursday in O Grove. Photo: EFE/Lavandeira jr

Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González received this Thursday the tribute of those attending the La Toja-Vínculo Atlántico Forum which is held in O Grove (Spain), where he will speak on Friday on the second day of this event.

González was present in the dialogue held as part of this forum by the former presidents of the Spanish government Felipe González and Mariano Rajoy and the elected president of the European Council, António Costa.

During that dialogue, Rajoy asked that there is “a little more enthusiasm in defense of democracy and freedom” by “some” and addressed the Venezuelan opposition leader to affirm that he is the one who won the elections in Venezuela. His words were followed by prolonged applause, received by Edmundo González with expressions of gratitude.

At the end of that event, the three participants in the dialogue approached him to hug him, like other attendees on the first day of the forum, including the leader of the conservative Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóomain opposition force in Spain.

Felipe González referred to the situation in Venezuela to remember that after everything that happened, the presidential candidate is in Spain.

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The high representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, and the Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González during the opening day of the La Toja-Vínculo Atlántico Forum held this Thursday in O Grove. Photo: EFE/Lavandeira jr

Ironically, he described the situation: «Edmundo González did not win the elections, Maduro lost them. So who won them? Nobody knows. “There is no way to know who won the election.”

The Carter Center shows the minutes of Edmundo González’s victory

Wednesday in Washington the Carter Centeran American organization that was an electoral observer in the Venezuelan presidential elections of July 28, showed “original” voting records to the Organization of American States (OAS) that point to the triumph of the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia.

According to the minutes presented by the Carter Center, Edmundo González Urrutia obtained 67% of the votes, while Nicolás Maduro had 31%.

The National Electoral Council (CNE), controlled by Chavismo, maintains that Maduro won those elections, despite the fact that it has not published the minutes with the disaggregated results.

The forum in which Edmundo González will speak this Friday It was inaugurated by the king of Spain, Felipe VI, in an event with the presence, among others, of the high representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell.









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