Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González has left the South American nation after looking for asylum in Spain, in line with the Spanish overseas minister.
“Edmundo González, at his personal request, flew to Spain on a Spanish air pressure airplane,” José Manuel Albares mentioned in a press release on-line, including that the “authorities of Spain is dedicated to the political rights and bodily integrity of all Venezuelans”.
Venezuelan vice-president Delcy Rodriguez additionally mentioned González had left the nation.
Gonzalez, who ran towards president Nicolas Maduro in July, left after “voluntarily looking for refuge within the Spanish embassy in Caracas a number of days in the past”, Rodriguez posted on Instagram.
She mentioned the federal government Maduro, which had ordered the candidate’s arrest, determined to grant González secure passage in another country to contribute to the nation’s political peace.
Neither González or anybody from Venezuela’s opposition has but to remark.
With Reuters and the Related Press
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