Edmundo González Urrutia denies having been run over, as the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela stated: this is what he said
Venezuela’s opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia proved this Tuesday, with a video on social networks, that It wasn’t hit on Monday. “on a street in Washington,” as stated by the president of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) of the Caribbean country, the Chavista Jorge Rodríguez, who assured that ““He was hit by a motorcycle yesterday.”
The leader of the largest opposition coalition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) -, who is in the capital of the United States after attending the inauguration ceremony of Donald Trump, He shared a video where he is seen walking on a street with his wife, Mercedes López.
“It’s cold, but we don’t stop,” he says on Instagram, while on X he says that “today Tuesday, in Washington”are at minus “10 degrees Celsius, but the work doesn’t stop.”
Edmundo González and Nicolás Maduro: presidential inauguration on January 10, 2025 in Venezuela Photo:THE TIME
‘Mr Edmundo can no longer come’
Previously, during the session of the Chavista National Assembly, Rodríguez stated that González Urrutia “was run over by a motorcycle yesterday (Monday) on a street in Washington” and, for that reason, the deputy added, “Mr. Edmundo can no longer come” to the South American country.
Rodríguez thus referred to the intentions expressed by the opponent, exiled since September, to return to his country to take office as head of state, when claiming his victory in the elections. presidential elections in July, in which the electoral body proclaimed the re-election of the Chavista leader, who this month was sworn in by the National Assembly, with a large pro-government majority, for a third term.
González Urrutia’s manifest plan was responded to by the Venezuelan authorities with a broad campaign to disseminate posters on social networks, police and military checkpoints, fences and even in the main international airport with the face of the opponent and a heading that reads “wanted.”
Likewise, the Police offer a reward of $100,000 for anyone who provides information for the capture of the PUD presidential candidate, accused of “complicity in the use of violent acts against the republic, usurpation of functions, forging documents, legitimation of capitals, ignorance of State institutions, i“instigation to disobedience of the laws, association to commit a crime.”
On Sunday, at one of the inaugural galas for the inauguration of the American president, González Urrutia intervened to assure, “certainly, that freedom will prevail” in Venezuela, and called for unity among the people of the Americas so that “democracy is unbreakable.”
EFE
