Arreaza criticizes Pedro Sanchez for calling Edmundo Gonzalez a hero

Jorge Arreaza, leader of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), criticized this Saturday the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, for Calling opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia a herowho -according to the leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE)- the European country is not going to abandon.

“For Pedro Sánchez, Edmundo González is a hero. In other words, to be a hero you have to run in an election, disavow the electoral body, publicly denounce alleged fraud, without presenting evidence,” said Arreaza – a Chavista and former foreign minister of Nicolás Maduro – on Telegram.

However, the Spanish president did not link the heroism he attributes to the opposition figure with the actions pointed out by the former minister.

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Pedro Sánchez claims Edmundo González as a “hero” of Venezuela, whom “Spain will not abandon.”

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The opposition figure is subject to an arrest warrant after failing to appear before the Prosecutor’s Office for an investigation related to a website on which the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) claims to have published 83.5% of the voting records, collected by witnesses and polling station members, to prove that Maduro did not win the election.

The ALBA leader criticized González Urrutia for ignoring the “summons from the Prosecutor’s Office,” which called him to appear on three occasions, after accusing him of “usurpation of functions,” “forgery of public documents,” “instigation to disobedience of laws,” “conspiracy,” “sabotage to damage systems and association (to commit crimes).”

In addition, Arreaza accused Edmundo González of allegedly “calling for violence in the streets” and “insisting that there was fraud” in the elections, in reference to the post-election protests against the official result of the presidential elections, in which the Prosecutor’s Office recorded more than 2,400 arrests and 25 deaths.

However, the opposition coalition claims that those responsible are members of the state security forces, who – says the PUD – acted on orders from above.

Forty-one days after the presidential elections, the National Electoral Council (CNE) has not published the presidential minutes, a request made by several countries, including Spain, to clarify the disputed result.

Spain and many other countries have repeatedly called on the Venezuelan authorities to make the records public to corroborate the results.