Venezuela, Edmundo Gonzalez recognizes electoral victory of president Nicolas Maduro

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*Gonzalez Urrutia requested authorization for his asylum in Spain *Edmundo Gonzalez’s lawyer denied that the document had been signed *Lawyer’s statement contradicts those of his client *National Assembly continues to investigate fascist post-election actions

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00:00Venezuela, the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, presented a document which

00:05the former presidential candidate of the far right, Edmundo González, recognized the ratification

00:10of the triumph of the president, Nicolás Maduro, by the Supreme Court of Justice.

00:14Let's see more in the following report.

00:18A day before leaving Venezuela, former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia

00:24signed a document recognizing the Supreme Court of Justice's ruling ratifying the electoral

00:29victory of President Nicolás Maduro.

00:31The signing of the letter took place during a meeting with the Spanish ambassador, the

00:35executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, and the president of the National Assembly,

00:40Jorge Rodríguez.

00:46And Mr. Edmundo González Urrutia continues, Mr. President of the National Assembly, I

00:58have always been and will continue to be willing to recognize and abide by the decisions

01:03adopted by the organs of justice within the framework of the Constitution, including the

01:08aforementioned ruling of the electoral chamber.

01:15González Urrutia also stated that he recognizes the five institutions of the state.

01:21Through the document, the ex-candidate of the extreme right requested authorization

01:25for his asylum in Spain and promised that his public activity abroad would be limited.

01:30The government of Spain denies having dialogued with Venezuela, but in an exclusive interview

01:35with Telesur, the president of the Legislative Assembly verified that there were conversations.

01:44It was a two-way negotiation.

01:46It was a conversation.

01:48It was a negotiation between the vice president and the government of Spain for the purpose

01:53of the documents, let's say legal.

02:01That has to do with the safe conducts that Venezuela has to grant so that people can

02:06leave the country, as in the case of González Urrutia, who had a request from the Public

02:12Prosecutor's Office of the Republic and also to give the approval to a plane of the Spanish

02:17Air Force that was to come to pick up González Urrutia, which is another thing that also

02:29has incongruities.

02:31Because they start to say that there was no negotiation, it is that a plane was flying

02:35around and decided to land.

02:38They think we are still in the 16th century or in the 17th century, when we were a colony

02:43of that empire, I am not talking about the 19th century, that hurts them a lot.

02:49But it is evident that if that plane lands and is kept in the hangar of the Vice Presidency

02:54of the Republic, it is because there is a permission from Venezuela, and that is part

03:00of the negotiation with the government of Spain.

03:08During the morning prior to the publication of the letter by the President of the National

03:12Assembly, Edmundo González's lawyer denied that the document had been signed.

03:22Edmundo González confirmed to me directly that he has not signed any document acknowledging

03:27the electoral results of the National Electoral Committee in Bulletin No. 1 and No. 2.

03:38The lawyer's speech was refuted by Jorge Rodríguez.

03:43I invite anyone to make a graphological analysis of the signature of Mr. Edmundo González,

03:49but we are also showing a photograph of Mr. Edmundo González signing, and I tell one

03:54more anecdote, that a friend of mine laughs at my absentmindedness, I did not have a pen

04:00at that time, and I asked Mr. González Verrutia to borrow his pen, my signature is written

04:07with Mr. González Verrutia's pen, because I did not have a pen.

04:17The lawyer's statements contradict those of his client, who from Spain acknowledges

04:21having signed, but assures that it was under duress and considers that the document is

04:26null and void.

04:28Jorge Rodríguez gave 24 hours for Edmundo González to rectify the accusations made.

04:36I have other evidence to the contrary.

04:39Do not force me to show them, because I am willing to do so.

04:43I have recordings of the meeting I personally had with Mr. González Verrutia.

04:48Do you want me to show them?

04:53The officialization of the letter comes at a time when the National Assembly is advancing

04:57in the investigations on the fascist actions that generated the death of 27 people against

05:02the electoral result of last July 28.

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