The Parliament of Venezuela urges the Maduro Executive to break relations with Spain

The Venezuelan Parliament, controlled by Chavismo, approved this Tuesday an agreement that urges the Government of Nicolás Maduro to break diplomatic, consular and commercial relations with Spainin response to the decision of the Spanish Congress to recognize the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia – exiled in Madrid – as winner of the presidential elections on July 28.

The agreement asks the Government to evaluate, “in a timely manner, the relationship breakup“with the Kingdom of Spain, as well as a”reciprocal action for the rude and interfering proposal adopted in the Congress of Deputies” of the European country against “Venezuelan institutions.”

Furthermore, the approved document “categorically” rejects the “disastrous resolution promoted by the fascist right of the Spanish Congress”, to which urges to respect “the decision of the Venezuelan people who sovereignly elected (…) Nicolás Maduro as re-elected president.”

This agreement is approved almost a month after, on September 11, the president of the National Assembly (AN), the Chavista Jorge Rodriguezwill ask the Foreign Policy Commission for an immediate meeting to draft a resolution that ask “the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to immediately sever all relations“with the European country.

Then, the deputy asked that the resolution establish that “all commercial activities of Spanish companies are stopped immediately“, in response to what he considered as “the most brutal attack” of Spain against Venezuela “since the times” when the Caribbean country fought for its independence, in reference to the decision of Congress.

Last September, the Spanish Congress, with the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) voting against, approved a non-law proposal promoted by the Popular Party (PP) in which it asks the Government to recognize as president of Venezuela Edmundo González Urrutiawho arrived in Madrid on the 8th of that month to seek asylum in the face of the persecution he claims to have suffered in his country.

However, the Government of Pedro Sánchez, for the moment, has not recognized the opponent as president-electas requested by the parties that voted in favor, including Partido Popular and Vox.

Maduro’s controversial re-election was proclaimed by the National Electoral Council (CNE) based on results that are still unknown in a disaggregated manner, and is rejected and designated as “fraudulent” by the majority opposition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) -, which claims the victory of González Urrutia.