MULINO visible in support of MADURO combatant in Venezuela.
- By : James Bryson
- Category : International Relations, World Events
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Days before Venezuela’s presidential inauguration, self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González was in Panama Wednesday rallying regional support for the opposition’s claims that he won the July election against President Nicolás Maduro.
Accompanied by a dozen former Latin American leaders, González met with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino at the presidential palace, where they were photographed holding what González said are the original ballot tallies that show his landslide victory in the presidential elections of July 28.
“Venezuela is facing very complicated times because the regime insists on clinging to power despite having been widely defeated in the elections,” González said after thanking Mulino for support. “The elections were openly stolen.”
The meeting comes after González left exile in Madrid to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden and leaders of Argentina and Uruguay. After the tour around the region, which included a stop in the Dominican Republic on Thursday, González said he plans to go to Venezuela to assume office as president on Friday.
He has not explained how he plans to return or wrest power from Maduro, who has put out an order for his arrest and whose party controls all institutions, including the military.
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