Diosdado responds to Edmundo González’s complaint of coercion

Diosdado Cabello, Minister of the Interior, said that the presidential candidate Edmundo González points to the Spanish ambassador in Caracas as an accomplice claiming that he signed a document under duress at that country’s embassy.

“That term is complicated. What it implies is coercion: blackmail, pressure, it’s something that you either do or you do. So, the Spanish ambassador is complicit in this, in coercion,” he stated.

“How is that? He now accuses his hosts of having forced him to stay in that house and then taking him to Spain?” he asked.

In your program With the hammer hitting, broadcast by the state channel Venezuelan Television, the Chavista official ratified the deadline that Jorge Rodríguez, president of the National Assembly, gave to the opposition to retract.

«The truth is that it was a negotiation. “That man was desperate to leave. He was so desperate that the presidential elections were on July 28 and on the 29th he was already in an embassy,” he said.

Cabello also spoke about the time González was sheltered in the Dutch Embassy. “It was a disaster there because he said he wanted to leave. So much so that the Dutch foreign minister had to come out with a statement,” he added.

Jorge Rodriguez’s deadline

Document signed by Edmundo González “under duress” at the Spanish Embassy in Caracas. Photo: National Assembly / EFE

Jorge Rodríguez gave Edmundo González Urrutia 24 hours to deny his claim of coercion by the Chavista regime to sign the document that formalized his exile in Spain.

“If you insist that this is coercion, I will show you the behind-the-scenes conversations. If in the next 24 hours you do not deny this unfortunate accusation you have made, I will show the evidence of the conversations that you and I had “face to face,” he threatened.

The parliamentarian He showed photographs that were taken without Gonzalez’s knowledge, during the meeting at the Spanish embassy in Caracas. The text states, among other things, that the opposition candidate recognized the results of the presidential elections that give Nicolás Maduro as the presumed winner and the subsequent “certification” by the Supreme Court of Justice.

To date, the National Electoral Council and Chavismo They have not disclosed the minutes that demonstrate Maduro’s alleged victory on July 28. Even the CNE itself, headed by the Chavista leader Elvis Amoroso, did not comply with the TSJ’s order to publish the disaggregated results of the elections.