Vox demands that Pedro Sánchez bring the two people arrested in Venezuela to Spain

Vox spokesman José Antonio Fúster demanded this Monday that the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, bring back to Spain the Two Basque citizens arrested in Venezuela accused of participating in an alleged operation to assassinate Nicolás Maduro and has announced that the party leader, Santiago Abascal, will soon meet with the opposition candidate Edmundo González, who has sought asylum in Madrid.

They are José María Basoa Valdovinos and Andrés Martínez Adasme, who has been arrested for alleged links to the National Intelligence Center (CNI) and accused of preparing a plot against the Venezuelan president, something denied by the Spanish authorities.

In a press conference at the party’s national headquarters, Fúster “categorically” denounced the kidnapping of these two Spaniards “by the dictatorial regime” of Venezuela.

“Maduro already has Spanish hostages and accuses them of increasingly serious things. Sánchez has to bring them back immediately,” he stressed, before adding that Vox has “no qualms about calling dictatorships or autocracies like the Spanish one by their name.”

The president of VOX will meet with Edmundo González

The president of VOX, Santiago Abascal, during a press conference after the VOX Political Action Committee in Madrid (Spain) –
Carlos Lujan / Europa Press

Asked whether a meeting between Abascal and Edmundo González is planned, the party spokesperson said that the Venezuelan politician has already given a positive response to the proposal made by Vox in this regard, but that a date for the meeting has not yet been set.

“Our contacts with Edmundo González and María Corina Machado’s team are and will be constant,” he said, stressing that Abascal’s meeting with the man they consider “the elected and legitimate president of Venezuela” will be “as soon as possible.”