*Arrest warrant issued after three unfulfilled citations
*One day after the presidential elections Edmundo Gonzalez sought asylum in embassies
*Edmundo Gonzalez face 6 criminal charges and left without answering for any of them
*Edmundo Gonzalez’s lawyer insisted that the former candidate would not leave the country
*Spanish media assured that people close to Edmundo Gonzalez not know of his departure
*Edmundo Gonzalez attempts with his departure to disassociate himself from the conflicts in the country
*One day after the presidential elections Edmundo Gonzalez sought asylum in embassies
*Edmundo Gonzalez face 6 criminal charges and left without answering for any of them
*Edmundo Gonzalez’s lawyer insisted that the former candidate would not leave the country
*Spanish media assured that people close to Edmundo Gonzalez not know of his departure
*Edmundo Gonzalez attempts with his departure to disassociate himself from the conflicts in the country
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00:00After being the subject of a warning for failing to comply with the sanctions of citizen power,
00:05former President Yucandi of the extreme right wing of Venezuela, Edmundo González Urrutia,
00:09left the country for Spain, with details on special envoy in Caracas, Nacho Lemus.
00:16Edmundo González left Venezuela through the Spanish embassy in Caracas. He left without
00:22giving answers in the case that investigates the link between the disregard of the electoral results
00:27and the fascist actions that killed 25 people after the elections of last July 20.
00:40The guy left first because he knows he did not win. That is the main reason.
00:46He knows he did not win. Second, he knows that those people who were surrounding him
00:51were going to harm him. And he says that it is for the tranquility of the country.
00:57Here in the country, there will be tranquility. Here, the most fascist sector of the right-wing
01:02state, if that has gradations, the most fascist is still here, and then the constitution and the
01:09law will intervene. After three unfulfilled summons, the public ministry had issued an
01:22arrest warrant against González Urrutia. The agency had no knowledge of the asylum
01:27since the day the former candidate arrived at the Spanish embassy.
01:36The governments of Spain and Venezuela agreed to grant safe conduct to the citizen Edmundo
01:40González Urrutia to leave the national territory and avail himself of the asylum granted by Spain.
01:52Before going to the Spanish embassy, the former presidential candidate of the extreme right
01:57refuge in the embassy of the Netherlands, which did not inform the Venezuelan authorities about
02:02the situation. It was one day after the presidential elections when the country
02:07was suffering a wave of violence. That is to say, his plan was never an electoral issue.
02:16What did Mr. González Urrutia know about what would happen in Venezuela that he would take refuge?
02:22That was the same day that the Comanditos of Terror were causing disasters and violence
02:27all over the country. That is, while the Comanditos of Terror were burning police modules,
02:32attacking schools, attacking hospitals, Mr. González Urrutia was taking refuge in the
02:37embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Edmundo González faces six charges,
02:46including the publication and maintenance of a webpage with a parallel count of electoral
02:51tally sheets with fraudulent data, usurpation of functions, forgery of public document,
02:57instigation to disobey laws, computer crimes, association to commit a crime and conspiracy.
03:04He left without answering for any of them. In Venezuela, for many it was a posable scenario.
03:14It was a bad candidacy. He knows it was bad and he knows he lost.
03:18Nothing lets hope he doesn't come anymore. Venezuelans will be calmer.
03:23The country will move forward step by step and we have to support our President Nicolás Maduro.
03:32Until the day before Urrutia's departure from Venezuela, his lawyer was told that the former
03:39candidate would not leave the country. Edmundo González Urrutia has in no way
03:44applied for asylum. Spanish media assure that when Vice President
03:51Delcy Rodríguez informed the departure of González Urrutia, some of the former candidate's
03:57closest collaborators were not aware of his departure. The speculations opened the door
04:01to a probable rift between the sectors of the ultra-right, without discarding
04:05the implementation of a new plan of self-proclamation from abroad.
04:09This is clear to the Venezuelan government and it is also clear to the entire Venezuelan society,
04:19which once again sees how the Venezuelan opposition repeats its acts of violation,
04:24does not show its face and hides. They try to lead the country into delicate situations
04:29and within international law, above all they bet on the intervention of other countries.
04:39In a letter published this Monday from Spain, Urrutia tries with his departure to dissociate
04:44himself from the conflicts in Venezuela that his own allies encourage against the country.