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 had been issued for his arrest attributable to his insistence that he’s the rightful winner of July’s election.
“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.
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