Felipe González asks the Government to transfer the opposition leader to Caracas to take office: “I am willing to accompany him”
The opposition leader Edmundo González has said that he has no “restrictions” to return to Venezuela and that he will reveal “neither the day nor the way” in which he returns to his country, always with a view to taking office on January 10, despite a possible arrest by the Chavista authorities.
“I will not reveal either the day or the way in which I will arrive in Venezuela,” he said this Monday from Madrid at an informative breakfast at Nueva Economía Fórum, where he was accompanied by the former president of the Spanish government Felipe González.
“I will assume the government with the support of seven million Venezuelans,” insisted González, who has promised a mandate free of revenge. “Whoever has accounts with Justice will have to take care of that,” he said.
“Justice will take the actions it must take and I have no plans to intervene in this regard to contain the excesses that have been committed,” González stressed.
“Our offer is one of reconciliation,” said the opposition leader, who, when asked if some kind of pardon or amnesty would be proposed for the leaders of the ruling party, responded that “it is possible that some decision could be taken in particular regarding Maduro.”
“In Venezuela there are almost 3,000 political prisoners, many of them unjustly imprisoned and who should never have been in prison,” lamented González, who has claimed to be “a functionary at the service of the State,” a reflection “of what democratic Venezuela was like.”
González has also claimed the figure of María Corina Machado, elected to serve as vice president in a possible mandate. “She has led and continues to lead this political process, she is one of the most capable in today’s Venezuela, with a vocation and social sensitivity,” he stressed.
Accompanied by Felipe González, the opposition leader thanked the “authorities” and the “economic sectors of the country” with whom he met for the welcome he received during all these months that he has been in Spain. “The feeling is one of gratitude,” he acknowledged.
For his part, the former Spanish president has been full of praise for the Venezuelan opposition leader, with whom he has been friends for years, he said, and has urged the Government to lead a “European initiative” to make possible the safe return of Edmundo González to Venezuela.
Thus, he has asked that “just as they brought him to Spain, if he wishes, they take him to Caracas.” Spain, he said, “should distinguish itself, naturally, by its historical relations with Venezuela” and make Edmundo González see that “it is at his disposal” to offer him the necessary means. “I am willing to accompany him,” he said.
