Parliament presents project on relations with Spain

The Parliament, controlled by Chavismo, presented this Tuesday the draft agreement that will urge the government to “evaluate” the breaking of diplomatic and commercial relations with Spain, in response to the decision of the Spanish Congress to recognize the opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia -exiled in the European country- as president-elect.

The document, read during the session, urges “the national Executive to evaluate, in a peremptory time, the breaking of diplomatic and commercial relations with the Kingdom of Spain, as a reciprocal action for the rude and interventionist proposition” of the Spanish Congress against “Venezuelan constitutionality.”

On September 11, Congress, with the vote against the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), approved a non-legislative proposal promoted by the Popular Party (PP) in which it asks the Executive to recognize González Urrutia as president of Venezuela, who arrived in Madrid on the 8th of this month to seek asylum from the persecution he claims to have suffered in his country.

According to the draft agreement, the National Assembly rejects “the disastrous resolution promoted by the fascist right in Congress” of the European country, and urges Spanish parliamentarians to “respect the decision of the Venezuelan people who sovereignly elected Maduro as “re-elected president” in the elections of July 28.

The result, announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE), is rejected and described as “fraudulent” by the majority opposition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – and widely questioned by a large part of the international community, which demands the publication of the minutes.

The AN project points out the decision of the Spanish Congress as an “action that seeks to ignore the democratic institutions” of Venezuela, as well as the “sovereign will of an entire people.”

He also says that in recent years the “Spanish far-right has sheltered convicted and confessed criminals, fascists and terrorists, who together with the Venezuelan right, have promoted failed coups d’état” in the Caribbean country and “the explosion of violence to generate political and social destabilization.”

“We will never accept any foreign government or international body imposing conditions and interfering in our internal affairs,” the document added.

The project was submitted at the request of the President of the Legislative Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, who last week asked for a resolution to be drafted, which he hopes will be approved, to urge the Executive to break “all diplomatic, consular, economic and commercial relations” with Spain.

Rodríguez demanded that the resolution establish that “all commercial activities of Spanish companies be ceased immediately,” in response to what he considered “the most brutal attack” by Spain against Venezuela “since the times” when the Caribbean country fought for its independence, in reference to the decision of the Congress of the European nation..