The PP traveled to Venezuela despite knowing a week before that its delegation would be "unacceptable" and expelled

When ten PP leaders boarded the plane at Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport last Friday, July 26, that was to take them to Caracas with the intention of supervising the electoral day on Sunday, July 28, in Venezuela, all of them – among them the PP spokesman in Congress, Miguel Tellado – had known for some time that they were going to be expelled from the country as soon as they touched Venezuelan soil.

The deputies and senators of the Popular Party maintained their plans despite the fact that the Venezuelan government itself, through its embassy in Spain, had warned them in writing nine days earlier, on July 17 –although it did not officially reach them until the 19th–, that they would not be able to enter its territory. The rejection was made explicit in an official response to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was the institution in charge of managing the requests presented by both the Popular Parliamentary Group and the Senate Board.