Tag: Edmundo González Urrutia

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

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

  

  “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

  

  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.

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

  Chavista groups withdraw from Argentine Embassy adjacencies

  

  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.

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

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

  

  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.

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

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

  

  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).

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

  International community concerned about arrest warrant against González Urrutia

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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.

• Monday, August 19th 2024 - 08:41 UTC

  Venezuelans stage ecumenic protest against elections dubious results

  

  Supporters of Venezuela's opposition Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) took to the streets of Caracas and of numerous other cities worldwide Saturday to insist that their candidate Edmundo González Urrutia needs to be recognized as the winner of the July 28 polls instead of the incumbent Nicolás Maduro, whom the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced as victor despite never producing the minutes to back up such a statement.