The Bolivarian National Police of Venezuela (PNBV) has published an arrest warrant against the opposition Edmundo González and has reported that it will issue a reward of almost $100,000 ($97,500) to anyone who gives information about his whereabouts. Initially it was $500,000.
At the moment, Edmundo González is exiled in Spain, although in the coming days he plans to leave our country to start an international tour. Your first stop will be Argentina.
He is accused of crimes of conspiracy and usurpation of functions, among others.
“Arrest warrant against Edmundo González Urrutia for crimes against the peace of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. “Anyone who has information should report it immediately” the PNBV has published on the social network Instagram, where it has also shared a photograph of González accompanied by the words “wanted”. The publication has also been shared by other institutions.
Edmundo Gonzalez has been accused of crimes of “conspiracy, complicity in the use of violent acts against the Republic, usurpation of functions, forging of documents, legitimation of capital, ignorance of State institutions, instigation to disobedience of the laws and association to commit a crime, among others” such and as can be read in the publication.
Edmundo González has been exiled in Spain since September
In September, the Venezuelan justice system issued an arrest warrant against the opponent, who had proclaimed himself winner of the elections held at the end of July, but in which The National Electoral Council (CNE) gave victory to Nicolás Maduro. These results were not shared by the main anti-Chavista platform, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) or by a large part of the international community.
At that time, González requested asylum in Spain considering that he was suffering “political and judicial persecution.” The opponent He was called up to three times by the Prosecutor’s Office to appear for the alleged “usurpation of functions, forging of a public document” and conspiracy”, but he did not appear.
On January 10 he will try to take power; Visit Argentina on Saturday
On January 10, the day on which Nicolás Maduro’s third term will begin, Edmundo González will try to take office. “January 10, as you know, is the date established by the Constitution so that, as president-elect, he assumes the corresponding functions,” he wrote on the social network X.
Before, the opponent will begin an international tour which begins this Saturday in Argentina. There, Javier Milei will receive you in the most tense moment in the bilateral relationship between both countriessince relations were broken when in Buenos Aires he supported the victory of Edmundo González at the polls.
