Reuters

La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, October 5, 2024, p. 19

Madrid. Edmundo González Urrutia stated yesterday that he will return to Venezuela as president-electon January 10, the day on which the Constitution of the South American country provides for the inauguration of the new president.

I am going to return to Venezuela as soon as possible, when we restore democracy in our country (…) I am going to take office as elected president on January 10he told reporters.

González attended a business event in Spain and, in his first public speech since his arrival in the European nation in early September, declaring his intention to become a political asylum seeker, he mentioned that he was president-elect and that his stay in Spain was temporary. .