Statements made by President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, during a press conference to address the latest claims of duress by former opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia. teleSUR
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00:00And finally, until the publishing of the document signed by González Urrutia, nobody, not even
00:09him or the embassy, talked about coercion.
00:12Then the document was published and this position arose.
00:17I want to know your hypothesis about this silence and the position they took after the
00:22publication.
00:23I want to start for the end.
00:28This document was published by González Urrutia when he was in Madrid, say, from the Cielo
00:41de Rodríguez and me.
00:44As you said, if he thought that he had to denounce pressure, he just had to write it
00:57in this communiqué saying, they put pressure on me.
01:02He doesn't say it because it's not true.
01:06Then his lawyer, that I think is the lawyer, he ordered him to say that he didn't sign
01:19any document.
01:20We have a video we saw yesterday, and the lawyer stated that yesterday morning, because
01:34the fight that the extreme right wing sectors have was in websites that serve the Venezuelan
01:49opposition, and they exposed the handwritten version of the letter without a signature,
02:02who published that with the intention of creating fights and controversy in sectors of the extreme
02:12right.
02:13There is also the issue of jealousy, the issue of who is the boss of who, and they released
02:27this document, and instead of sending the lawyer to recognize it, they ordered him to
02:35say that that doesn't exist on the representation of the state of the Bolivian Republic of Venezuela.
02:44I don't have any option but to publish it, because if he remained silent or said, yes,
02:54there's a document, I would be forced to stay quiet.