Feijóo: "The future is not Delcy; it is what the Venezuelans decide."

The leader of the Spanish Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, demanded this Sunday that the transition in Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro by the United States be based on a democratic electoral process led by Edmundo González and María Corina Machado, whom he described as “the peaceful and constitutional way for Venezuela to regain its freedom.”

In a statement titled "Towards the Full Freedom of Venezuela," released alongside a message on platform X where he stated that "the future is not Delcy, the future is what all Venezuelans decide," Feijóo asserted that the fall of Maduro's regime "marks the end of a tyranny" and that "millions of Venezuelans breathe today with a new hope."

The president of the PP asserted that the country's future must be built on democratic values and respect for the rule of law, including International Law, although he warned that those who now invoke legality "cannot do so after having enabled or assisted the criminal regime of Maduro."

“Before anyone else, it was the regime itself that disregarded the rules-based order by stealing the last elections and ignoring the sovereignty of the Venezuelan people,” he emphasized. 

The text, personally signed by Feijóo, implicitly supported the U.S. intervention in Caracas, which resulted in the capture of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and their transfer to the United States. “Reversing tyranny and plunder is essential,” the popular leader added.

The leader of the PP also warned that Delcy Rodríguez, appointed by the Supreme Court of Venezuela as the acting president, “cannot lead the future of Venezuela,” stating that she represents “the darkest past of the regime” and is “an accomplice of looting and repression.”

Feijóo noted that Rodríguez is sanctioned by the European Union and the United States for human rights violations, and that her appointment "would only prolong the continuity of the regime that the Venezuelan people have already rejected at the polls."

The statement, in a solemn tone, asserted the historical ties between Spain and Ibero-America and criticized Pedro Sánchez's government for having "renounced its moral and diplomatic leadership" in the face of the Venezuelan dictatorship.

"Spain must regain the exemplary nature that the government has been unable to demonstrate,” asserted Feijóo, who concluded that the freedom of Venezuela “is not only a just cause, but a moral obligation for those of us who believe in democracy and brotherhood among sister nations.”