Neither the EU nor the US: Congress sides with Milei and recognises Edmundo González as Venezuela’s president-elect

The countries of the European Union have not gone so far. Nor have the large countries of Latin America. Not even the United States, which on another September 11, but in 1973, had a lot to do with the overthrow of Salvador Allende and the establishment of a cruel dictatorship in Chile headed by Augusto Pinochet. The Argentina of the ultra Javier Milei; Daniel Noboa’s Ecuador, the president who decided on the unprecedented assault on the Mexican embassy in Quito, indirectly; and Panama of the conservative José Ramón Mulino have taken the step of recognizing Edmundo González Urrutia as the elected president of Venezuela, which is precisely what the Congress of Deputies has requested this Wednesday with the votes of PP, Vox, PNV, UPN and CC –177 votes in favor, 164 against and 1 abstention–. It is a request in line with what The Venezuelan opposition, led above all now, demands within the country by Corina Machado – a right-wing leader who received Milei’s support in the elections and has participated in events of European ultraconservatives with Vox–.

“The Congress of Deputies urges the Government to recognize Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate winner of the presidential elections of July 28, 2024 in Venezuela and, therefore, as the elected and legitimate president of Venezuela,” reads the first point of the non-law proposal presented by Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s PP.