Edmundo González spent more than a month at the Dutch Embassy in Caracas

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp informed the House of Representatives of his country that Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, He was secretly housed in the Dutch embassy in Caracas for more than a monthas reported by public television on Sunday Us.

The head of Dutch diplomacy specified that the reception took place at the request of González Urrutia himself, according to Us.

The former presidential candidate and standard-bearer of the largest opposition coalition in Venezuela, who requested and received political asylum from Spainreceived “hospitality at the residence of the Netherlands in Caracas until September 5,” said the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, in a statement.

After confirming that González Urrutia is on his way to Spain, the Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, said that the Madrid government has granted asylum to the Venezuelan politician. at his request after spending some time at the residence of the Spanish Embassy in Caracaswithout giving further details on the matter.

A few hours before Edmundo González arrives in Madrid, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, confirms the asylum granted to González pic.twitter.com/sxuOTZRkSP

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Pedro Sanchez pointed out that Edmundo Gonzalez is a “hero”

Albares announced this decision in statements to journalists in Muscat, where the Spanish Air Force plane carrying the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, at the head of a delegation that includes the minister, made a stopover on its trip to China.

“Spain’s doors to a sister country like Venezuela will always be open”“as the doors of the Spanish Embassy residence have been for Edmundo González,” he said.

The head of Spanish diplomacy, who confirmed that González was flying to Spain at the request of the opposition leader himself, explained that the latter had also requested asylum, which “of course – he stressed – the Spanish government will process and grant.”

Spain’s decision to host González was announced hours after Pedro Sanchezin his speech at the meeting of the Federal Committee of the PSOE, pointed out that Edmundo González is “a hero whom Spain will not abandon”.