Miguel Tellado demands that the Spanish government recognize Edmundo’s victory

The spokesperson for the Popular Party (PP), the main opposition political organization in Spain, in the Spanish Congress, Miguel Tellado, demanded that the government recognize opposition leader Edmundo González as the winner of the elections in Venezuelaand denounced that it seems that the President of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, prefers left-wing dictatorships rather than right-wing democratic governments.

Tellado defended the requests of his parliamentary group for the president of the government and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, to appear before the chamber and explain Spain’s position, which has not recognised the victory claimed by Nicolás Maduro and has demanded the publication of the electoral records.

Albares confirmed on Monday that Spain will not recognize Nicolás Maduro’s electoral victory until the minutes of the elections are verified, but it does not plan to admit an opposition victory until then.

The lack of sufficient support in the House will prevent, barring a surprise, the requests for the appearance of the president and the minister from going ahead.

The conservatives have again attacked former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, from the same party as Sánchez, who ran in the Venezuelan elections as part of the Puebla Group, and accused him of “helping the survival of a criminal dictatorship.”

The Popular Party is asking for “light on the darkness” that, in its opinion, surrounds Zapatero’s relationship with Venezuela, and is demanding to know what his role is, who paid for his trip or why the former socialist president did not sign the Puebla Group’s petition for the publication of the minutes.

Once again, the PP asked the government to explain its “lukewarmness” and asked whether this had to do with Zapatero’s economic interests or with the ideological closeness to Maduro.

The PP accuses Maduro of having clung to implausible results and institutions without the necessary independence and impartiality, and sees the opposition leader’s victory, which has been recognised by countries such as the United States, as proven.

Tellado He asked Sánchez to follow the example of Chilean President Gabriel Boric, of whom he said that being left-wing does not prevent him from calling dictatorships by their name.