The brave Venezuelan opponent Maria Corina Machado He participated this Thursday, via telematics, in a PP event together with Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The setting is curious to say the least, not because of the venue itself, but because this week it hosted another event with Venezuela in the background starring Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapaterodark necessary collaborator of the Maduro regime: the Ateneo de Madrid. The name of the former Spanish president has also been mentioned this Thursday.
There, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has announced that his party will urge the Government to denounce Nicolás Maduro before the International Criminal Court. The president of the PP has assured that “Zapatero has worked for Edmundo to leave, I will work for Maduro to leave.”
Feijóo, who has defined Machado as a “brave” woman, has stressed that “he who resists wins,” as Nobel Prize winner Camilo José Cela said. That said, he has indicated that now it is their turn to rise to the occasion and has promised to “redouble diplomatic pressure”, activating the governments of the 27 to take a position.
“The one who has to go is Maduro, it is not Edmundo González,” he proclaimed, adding that he has to assume the responsibility they have because they cannot be “lukewarm” or “equidistant” in the face of what is happening.
After ensuring that the Maduro regime is “weaker than ever” as proof that it has “intensified repression,” Feijóo told Corina Machado that he can count on the PP in his fight. «I want to tell you that you can count on usthat we are not going to fail, that the majority of the Spanish people are not going to fail the Venezuelan people, that you feel comfortable because Spain is a country that is an ally of Venezuelan democracy,” he stated, reports Efe.
Furthermore, the president of the PP has criticized that his party is called “opportunist” for defending freedom in Venezuela. «Zapatero has worked to get Edmundo to leave. “I will work to make Maduro leave,” he said.
In her speech, María Corina Machado thanked Feijóo and his “great friends”, citing Miguel Tellado already Consuelo Álvarez de Toledobecause “they have been great allies in this fight” because they are “in the same cause.”
“What is happening in Venezuela is truly historic,” has proclaimed, to add that the movement they are building is “irreversible”. That said, he has defended moving forward with measures such as closing financial flows.
