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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 09:07 UTC

Tag: Edmundo González Urrutia

  • Thursday, September 19th 2024 - 18:49 UTC

    European Parliament says González Urrutia is Venezuela's President-elect

    González Urrutia said he would continue to work for a democratic Venezuela from abroad and hoped to be back in his country in January for his intended inauguration

    The European Parliament Thursday recognized Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate winner of Venezuela's July 28 controversial presidential elections at which the incumbent Nicolás Maduro claims to have prevailed. Strasbourg reached this decision with 309 votes in favor, 201 against and 12 abstentions. Disenfranchised politician María Corina Machado has also been recognized as leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela.

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  • Thursday, September 12th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

    UK statement on Edmundo González Urrutia’s decision to leave Venezuela

    Gonzalez Urrutia currently exiled under asylum conditions in Spain has promised to continue struggling for freedom and democracy in Venezuela (Pic Reuters)

    “Edmundo Gonzalez’s decision to seek political asylum abroad follows months of repression and intimidation against opposition figures and civil society in Venezuela. It is a decision that no politician should ever have to make”, said Foreign Secretary David Lammy in a release from his Office.

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  • Tuesday, September 10th 2024 - 09:19 UTC

    Maduro now salutes González Urrutia in exile

    Maduro has shifted from calling González Urrutia a “murderer” to wishing him “all the best in his new life”

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said in his weekly TV show Monday that he now respects former presidential candidate and retired diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, who sought asylum in Spain after insisting he had won the July 28 elections, for which an arrest warrant had been issued against him.

  • Monday, September 9th 2024 - 08:12 UTC

    Chavista groups withdraw from Argentine Embassy adjacencies

    Brazil remains for now guarding Argentina's Embassy in Caracas

    Venezuelan pro-government militias were reported to have stopped stalking the premises of what used to be Argentina's Embassy in Caracas after former presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia arrived in Spain as an asylum seeker.

  • Sunday, September 8th 2024 - 18:36 UTC

    Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González arrives in Spain after receiving political asylum

    González’s departure was made possible through a coordinated diplomatic effort involving the Netherlands and Spain

    Edmundo González Urrutia, a prominent Venezuelan opposition leader who was elected, to many in the international community, as the legitimate winner of the July 28 presidential election, arrived in Spain this Sunday after being granted political asylum by the Spanish government. González had sought refuge at the Dutch Embassy in Caracas before securing his passage out of the country.

  • Friday, September 6th 2024 - 10:22 UTC

    Machado urges US to recognize González Urrutia as as President-elect of Venezuela

    “We need to move forward,” Machado argued

    Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado insisted Thursday that the United States should recognize Edmundo González Urrutia as the legitimate winner of the July 28 elections at which the incumbent Nicolás Maduro claims to have prevailed despite producing no evidence to support these allegations other than a declaration from the pro-Government National Electoral Council (CNE) and a ruling validating it from the subservient electoral branch of the Supreme Court (TSJ).

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 10:18 UTC

    International community concerned about arrest warrant against González Urrutia

    Expecting Venezuelan authorities to do justice is “a legal absurdity,” according to the OAS

    Multiple voices from the international community expressed their concern Tuesday after Venezuela's Judiciary issued an arrest warrant against opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, whom many regard as the true winner of the July 28 presidential elections at which the incumbent Nicolás Maduro claims to have prevailed but without submitting any evidence.

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 10:02 UTC

    Maduro announces Xmas celebration for Oct. 1

    Maduro's measure came the same day that an arrest warrant against González Urrutia was issued

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro brought forward Christmas to Oct. 1 for the third time in his administration, he announced Tuesday in his TV show “Con Maduro+” broadcasted on YouTube.

  • Tuesday, September 3rd 2024 - 10:08 UTC

    Venezuela: Arrest warrant issued against Edmundo González Urrutia

    The man the opposition holds as “President-elect” poses a flight risk to Chavist prosecutors

    A Venezuelan court Monday issued an arrest warrant against former presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who the opposition insists won the July 28 polls with 67% of the vote, thus failing to recognize the National Electoral Council's (CNE) announcement that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had prevailed with a 52% support. This result was later validated by the Supreme Court (TSJ) at Maduro's request.

  • Thursday, August 22nd 2024 - 20:56 UTC

    Venezuela's TSJ rules that Maduro won the July 28 elections

    “We can conclude that the bulletins issued by the CNE are supported by the tally sheets issued by each of the voting machines,” Caryslia Rodríguez stressed

    The Electoral Chamber of Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) ruled Thursday that incumbent President Nicolás Maduro won the July 28 polls and therefore has been reelected for the 2025-2031 term, Chief Justice Caryslia Rodríguez announced.

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