Former Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia has left the country, having received asylum in Spain, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said.
"Today, September 7, opposition citizen Edmundo González Urrutia left the country, voluntarily taking refuge for several days in the embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Caracas, asking for political asylum from this government," Rodriguez said on Telegram.
On Tuesday, the Venezuelan Attorney General's Office announced that the Venezuelan Court of First Instance had issued a warrant for the arrest of Edmundo Gonzalez, a former presidential candidate for the United Right opposition who had failed to appear three times to testify when subpoenaed.
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The Venezuelan government has said opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González has left the country for Spain, where he is to be granted political asylum.
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Venezuela's Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez said in a post on social media that after "voluntarily" seeking refuge at the Spanish embassy in Caracas some days ago, Mr Gonzalez asked the Spanish government for political asylum.
She added that Caracas had agreed to his safe passage and that he had left.