Delcy Rodriguezvice president of the Chavista dictatorship of Venezuela, and her brother Jorge Rodriguezpresident of the National Assembly, coerced Edmundo González, elected president of Venezuela, to sign a document in which he recognized the victory of Nicolás Maduro in the elections and renounced his claim to the presidency of the country. The events occurred in the house of the Spanish ambassador, Ramon Santosinside the Spanish Embassy in Caracas, where Delcy Rodriguez Access is prohibited as it is on Spanish soil.
The regime, through its official news agency, Venezuela News, published the images in which González appeared signing the document with Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez at the ambassador’s residence. The publication of these images has been done to cast doubt and humiliate the winner of the elections.
The signing of that document was the condition for González to head to Spain to request political asylum. The elected president of Venezuela was the one who revealed this Wednesday that he suffered coercion and threats to sign the document. “Either I signed, or I faced the consequences,” González said in a video on his social networks.
Jorge Rodríguez himself responded this Wednesday to González’s accusations. The president of the Venezuelan Assembly has charged against the winner of the elections for revealing the coercion. “I have other evidence that indicates the opposite, do not force me to show it, because I am willing to do so,” Rodríguez said. At the same time, he has shown the images in which González appears signing the documents together with Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez at the residence of the Spanish ambassador. The president of the National Assembly has assured that he is in a position to record the conversations he had with González and has threatened the opponent with revealing them if he did not deny them. accusations of coercion.
Edmundo González published a video this Wednesday afternoon in which he denounced that he was forced under duress to sign the document, but also assured that he was not renouncing the “mandate” assigned to him by “millions of Venezuelans.” “Was very tense hours of coercion, blackmail and pressure. At those moments I considered that I could be more useful free than locked up and unable to fulfill the tasks entrusted to me by the sovereign,” said the winner of the elections on July 28 to explain the reasons for his departure from the country towards Spain. to request asylum.
González criticized the pressure from Chavismo to sign the documents, which would be worthless and which he claims not to recognize: “A document produced under duress.” is vitiated by absolute nullity for a serious defect in consent. The opponent also shared with all the Venezuelans who support him that he is not giving up and that he will continue fighting for change in Venezuela. «As elected president of millions and millions of Venezuelans who voted for change, democracy and peace, they are not going to silence me. I will never betray them. This is known to each and every one of the people I have spoken to until today.
Edmundo González arrived in Spain last Sunday, September 8, after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs negotiated his departure to grant him political asylum in Spanish territory. The Venezuelan president had been hiding from the regime forces since the elections, first in the Netherlands Embassy in Caracas and later in the residence of the Spanish ambassador. The Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office issued a arrest warrant against González after he refused to appear on up to three occasions to explain the publication of the electoral records that gave the victory of the elections to the opposition, denying the results of the National Electoral Council (CNE).
The Congress of Deputies of Spain voted last week in favor of a PP proposal for the Government of Pedro Sánchez to recognize Edmundo González as elected president. The result of the vote sparked a wave of indignation among Chavismo in Venezuela, which has threatened to break diplomatic relations with Spain.
