TeleSUR correspondent Ignacio Lemus in Caracas, Venezuela reports on the recent press conference held with President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, to discuss the recent voluntary departure of former opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia from the country. teleSUR
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00:00Caracas, Venezuela once more, where the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez,
00:05just offered statements.
00:07Let's see what is going on at this moment in the city, in the capital of Venezuela,
00:12in Caracas.
00:13Let's see.
00:14We were, just minutes before, listening to the statements of the president of the National
00:21Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, who held a press conference regarding the decision of the former
00:26candidate of the far-right wing, Edmundo González Urrutia, to leave the country a
00:31few days earlier and request political asylum in the Kingdom of Spain.
00:37A few days, just hours after the elections were held on July 28th in the country, Edmundo
00:45González took refugee or hide in the Netherlands embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, and a few days
00:53later he asked for asylum in the Kingdom of Spain, diplomatic headquarters in the capital.
01:02So, this was the topic that the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez,
01:08was speaking about and offering details about how his departure was carried out in the country.
01:16During his statement, Rodríguez denied what some far-right media and also even González's
01:22lawyer have been saying, that Edmundo González acted on the duress, which means that he acted
01:31on the threats and violence, which was never what really happened.
01:36The Venezuelan authorities never pushed him to leave, as Edmundo González and some far-right
01:42media and even his lawyer have been saying.
01:46This, in a letter, led to bioposition media outlets in the country and abroad.
01:52Edmundo González urged the authorities to allow him to departure the country.
02:02So, this is what we've been reporting for a few days.
02:08Earlier this Wednesday afternoon, the president of the National Assembly offered an interview
02:15with the president of the multiplatform Telesur, Patricia Villegas, in which he expressed and
02:22offered details and recordings and pictures that show Edmundo González asking the Venezuelan
02:29authorities to allow him to leave the country.
02:33So, there is a letter signed, handwritten and signed, by Edmundo González himself,
02:39that was leaked by the opposition media outlets, not by the authorities themselves, in which
02:46Edmundo González urged the authorities to allow him to take a plane towards Spain.
02:51He was already hiding in the Spain diplomatic headquarters in the country.
03:01This is all for the moment, we were listening a few minutes ago to the president of the
03:08National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, regarding the departure from the country of far-right
03:14ex-candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who left the country by his own decision.
03:21This is all for the moment, stay tuned with From the South.