“After all, our curiosity will all the time be to work to keep up the very best relations with the Venezuelan individuals,” Pilar Alegria advised reporters, including that Spanish missions in Venezuela had been working usually.
Tensions between Spain and Venezuela have spiked after Venezuelan opposition determine and presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, 75, arrived in Madrid late on Sunday.
He fled after weeks in hiding following a July 28 presidential election that the opposition insists he received however was claimed by incumbent Nicolas Maduro.
On Wednesday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez stated that granting Gonzalez Urrutia asylum was a “gesture of humanity”.
The Spanish authorities “has been clear because the elections had been held”, he advised reporters whereas on a go to to Shanghai.
“Now we have requested for the publication of the outcomes, we now have not recognised Nicolas Maduro’s victory.”
“And we’re doing one thing essential: working for unity within the European Union… in order that we are able to discover a method out that displays the democratic will expressed on the poll field by the Venezuelan individuals.”
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Spanish lawmakers accredited Wednesday a nonbinding movement calling on Sánchez’s authorities to recognise Gonzalez Urrutia “because the reputable winner of the presidential elections” and “subsequently, because the elected and legit president of Venezuela”.
Whereas the USA has recognised Gonzalez Urrutia because the winner of the election, Spain and different European Union nations have up to now restricted themselves to refusing to just accept Maduro because the victor and calling on the Venezuelan authorities to launch the voting tally sheets.