Maduro highlights the country’s “sovereignty” in the face of the vote in the Spanish Congress to recognize González

The president calls the PP and Vox “garbage” and “far-right”

September 11 () –

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has stressed the country’s “sovereignty” ahead of the vote to be held on Wednesday in the Spanish Congress to recognize opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the winner and new Venezuelan president, as well as condemning the regime’s repression and reproving the silence of former Spanish socialist president Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who has participated in mediation tasks between the government and the opposition.

In this regard, he has asked the Venezuelan vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez, to call her “friend” the Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, to show him “the act of independence of July 5” so that “he knows that Venezuela is and will be irremediably free, sovereign, independent of Madrid, Spain and the entire world,” as he declared in the Plenary Session of the Federal Government Council.

After this, he has described the Popular Party (PP) and Vox as “trash” and “far-right”, formations that defend the initiative that will be voted on in the Spanish Congress.

“There were millions of Spaniards who supported Franco and who still vote for the PP, the PP trash, the far right, and the ultra-trash Vox, which is the far right, which has a colonialist concept of America. This will be demonstrated tomorrow in a vote in Congress,” Maduro added.

In this regard, he said that Madrid has been the “host of fascism in Europe and the world” since the Franco dictatorship, and that today it is the “receptacle for all the terrorists, corrupt people and fascists in Venezuela who flee to Madrid,” referring to the opposition members exiled in Spain.

It should be noted that González arrived in Madrid on Sunday after leaving Caracas on a Spanish Air Force plane after spending more than a month sheltered in the Dutch Embassy. On September 5, he moved to the Spanish diplomatic headquarters and left the country on Saturday.

Venezuela held presidential elections on July 28, in which, according to authorities, Maduro won with just over 51 percent of the votes, although the opposition quickly claimed victory.

Tensions have only increased in Venezuela, especially in the first days after the elections. Meanwhile, pressure on Maduro is also mounting from abroad as the international community insists on the need to review and publish the electoral records and for the government to demonstrate transparency and evidence of its victory.