The government’s response to the recognition of Georgia Meloni

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Edmundo González thanks Meloni for his position on VenezuelaEdmundo González thanks Meloni for his position on Venezuela

ROME, 10/28/2024.- The Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, received this Monday in Rome the Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, to whom she reiterated Italian support “for the efforts to facilitate the democratic transition” in Venezuela. Meloni “has received Edmundo González Urrutia, Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought, at the Chigi Palace today,” the office of the Italian head of government reported in a statement.-EFE/ Palazzo Chigi press office ***USE ONLY EDITORIAL/ONLY AVAILABLE TO ILLUSTRATE THE ACCOMPANYING NEWS (MANDATORY CREDIT)***

The Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Yván Gil, said this Wednesday that the President of Argentina, Javier Milei, and the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, met in Buenos Aires to attack Venezuela and – he said – “fantasize” about a “lackey regime.”

«Show for fascists and Nazis from Buenos Aires: Meloni and Milei meet to attack Venezuela and fantasize again about a lackey regime in our country in the style of (Benito) Mussolini and (Adolf) Hitler,” Gil said in a post on Telegram.

He added that Meloni’s attitude is “shameful, it hurts and stabs” a “historic” relationship between the people of Italy and Venezuela, where hundreds of migrants who were “fleeing the horror of the extreme right” were received “with a lot of love.”

«Our infinite love for the Italian and Italian peoples Argentine people who fight to prevent the return of the times of fascist terror that threatens them again today,” he added.

Why does he attack Meloni?

This Wednesday, Meloni recognized Edmundo González Urrutia as president-elect. from Venezuela during a meeting in Buenos Aires with Milei.

«Together with the European Union we work for a democratic transition and in peace in Venezuela so that the preference expressed by the Venezuelan people for the elected president González Urrutia and the legitimate aspirations for freedom and democracy finally come true,” said Meloni.

The head of government of Italy reaffirmed that she does not recognize the “victory proclaimed” by Nicolás Maduro after the elections of July 28, which the opposition described as fraud.

«The crisis that Venezuela is going through is an issue that both for Italy and Argentina is particularly important,” indicated the Italian president.

On Tuesday, González Urrutia, who is in exile in Spain, insisted that he remains firm in his intention to return to Venezuela to be sworn in as president on January 10, as established by the Constitution.

«My swearing-in will be in the terms of the Constitution in Venezuelabefore the legislative bodies that are those approved to make that oath. Without a doubt,” said González Urrutia in an interview with the program The Afternoon from the NTN24 channel.

Maduro has reiterated that he will go to the Federal Legislative Palace on January 10, seat of Parliament, to be sworn in as president for six more years.









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