What Aznar said after meeting with Edmundo González

The Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González met this Monday with the former president of the Spanish government, José María Aznar in Madrid, Spain.

In a statement issued by the foundation chaired by Aznar, Faes, after the meeting, reported by the Efe agency, the Spanish politician expressed his support for democracy in Venezuela.

“We must all work to ensure that Edmundo González’s exile ends as soon as possible and may serve as president of a Venezuela in peace and freedom“, he stressed.

“At this moment it is important to remember that Edmundo González has won the elections; that Edmundo González is the president-elect of Venezuela and that the international community cannot tolerate the deterioration of democracy in that country,” said the former president of the Spanish government.

Aznar is the third former prime minister to meet with Edmundo González, after Mariano Rajoy, also from the Popular Party, and Felipe González, from the Socialist Party, held a meeting with him last week, recognising him as “president-elect”.

Faes had regretted that González Urrutia was “forced” to ask for asylum in Spain in the face of persecution by the Nicolás Maduro regime, believing that the Chavista president was seeking the exile of the “elected president” and has achieved it.

Edmundo González is expected to visit the Congress of Deputies on Tuesday to meet with the leader of the Popular Party (conservative), Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

The Venezuelan opposition leader will visit the Lower House a week after the Spanish Congress approved the request to recognise him as president-elect at the request of the PP, according to sources from the Popular Party who have informed Efe.