The Venezuelan authorities has stated opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González has left the nation, searching for asylum in Spain.
Mr González has been in hiding, and a warrant issued for his arrest after the opposition disputed July’s presidential election end result – wherein the government-controlled Nationwide Electoral Council (CNE) declared Nicolás Maduro the winner.
“After taking refuge voluntarily on the Spanish embassy in Caracas a number of days in the past, (Gonzalez Urrutia) requested the Spanish authorities for political asylum,” Venezuela’s Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez stated on social media.
She added that Caracas had agreed to his secure passage and that he had left.
Spain’s Minister of International Affairs José Manuel Albares stated Mr González had departed the nation at his personal request, and on a Spanish Air Pressure airplane.
He added that Spain’s authorities is dedicated to the political rights of all Venezuelans.
Venezuela has been in a political disaster since authorities declared President Maduro the victor of the 28 July election.
The opposition claimed it had proof Mr González had received by a cushty margin, and uploaded detailed voting tallies to the web which counsel Mr González beat Mr Maduro convincingly.
Plenty of nations, together with the US, the European Union and several other Latin American nations, have refused to acknowledge President Maduro because the winner with out Caracas releasing detailed voting knowledge.
Previous to leaving the nation, Mr González had been in hiding for a month, ignoring three successive summons to seem earlier than prosecutors.
Put up-election violence in Venezuela has claimed 27 lives and left 192 individuals injured whereas the federal government says it has arrested some 2,400 individuals.
