Three of the four largest parties have supported today the manifestation of some five hundred Venezuelan opposition in Madrid in favor of the recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro.
Except for the leftist coalition Unidos Podemos (third parliamentary force), responsible for the government and the conservative Popular Party (PP), the PSOE (Socialists) and Citizens (liberals) were in protest he asked, with the referendum, freedom of Venezuelan political prisoners.
The demonstration, called by representatives in Spain of the Bureau for Democratic Unity (MUD) of Venezuela, following the great march of day 1 in Caracas, which brought together more than one million people, according to opposition sources.
The secretary of International Relations of PP, Jose Ramon Garcia Hernandez said that today is difficult to justify not be here. “All said Democrats are fighting to defend freedom in Venezuela”.
In the same way the representatives of the PSOE and Citizens spoke.
MEP Liberal Group and vice president of the Human Rights Subcommittee of the European Parliament, Beatriz Becerra, stressed that the whole EU is demanding Maduro that respects the constitutional mandates including is the call of the recall referendum.
Becerra pointed out that “follows the harassment and imprisonment opponents” and also continues to grow “shortages and deaths from lack of health care in hospitals.”
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Help Venezuela platform, Eva Maria Sanchez, accused the government of Maduro of having “all locked and do what he wants” despite that “everyone is asking you to open the borders to humanitarian aid and stop putting people in jail.”
This Saturday, the eve of the demonstration in Madrid, there were protests in major cities of the Canary Islands and Barcelona.
About 500 people gathered between Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas to also support the convening of the referendum, demand the release of political prisoners and demanding economic reforms to relieve the country of hunger, poverty and scarcity.
In Barcelona, protesters were on the order of 200 and had the support of the Liberal Party councilor Citizens in the city of Barcelona, Carina Mejías.
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