Núñez Feijóo reiterates commitment to Venezuelans

The president of the conservative Spanish Popular Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo reiterated this Tuesday that he is fully committed “politically and morally” to the Venezuelan peopleafter meeting with Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González in Congress: «Always on the side of the democrats“, said.

Through the social network X, where Núñez Feijóo referred to Edmundo González as “the president-elect of Venezuela”, the leader of the PP, the main opposition party in Spain, also showed some photographs posing with him in the hemicycle and in other dependencies of the Chamber.

The visit comes after Congress last week backed an initiative by the Popular Party to urge the Spanish government, headed by the socialist Pedro Sánchez, to recognize Edmundo González as the legitimate president of Venezuela.

The meeting between Edmundo González and Núñez Feijóo comes after the Venezuelan opposition leader met in previous days with the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, at the Moncloa Palace, the seat of government, and with former presidents of the government Felipe González, Mariano Rajoy and José María Aznar.

Both Núñez Feijóo and the former presidents of the government They were in favor of recognizing Edmundo González as the elected president of Venezuelafollowing the elections of July 28, in which he faced the current president, Nicolás Maduro.

However, the Spanish government is focusing on the request that the electoral records be made public in order to be able to recognise a winner of the elections, a position defended by the European Union.

Edmundo González arrived in Spain on September 8 to request political asylum, after being summoned by the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office.