MADRID.- The former Spanish president, Felipe González, criticized the “non-coherent” position of Spain and the European Union in relation to Venezuela after the July 2024 elections, for not recognizing Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of the elections until he the minutes are published.
During his intervention in the master class: “The Governments of Felipe González Márquez (1982-1996)”, which took place at the Goethe Institu Madrid within the framework of the Higher Course on Talent and Political Leadership, presented by the former ‘popular’ minister María Dolores de Cospedal. González also attacked the “tyrannical dictator” and “bird” of Nicolás Maduro, who was sworn in as president of the country last Friday, an act that the opposition described as the “consummation of a coup d’état.”
Precisely, in reference to the situation in Venezuela, the former president pointed out that “what the European Union is doing with the Latin American country is not coherent.” “We have unintentionally given Maduro an advantage. Well, some will want to, of course. I don’t want to play innocent either. The advantage is that, as long as they do not present the minutes, we do not recognize it. In other words, they are not going to present them. “How, as long as they don’t show up? How can this be happening in the European Union?” González launched.
“evil game”
“Those of us who believe in democracy are not willing to play that evil game of ‘this democracy is left-wing and I feel close or it is right-wing and I feel close,'” he criticized.
At the same time, he praised the “exceptional personality” of the opposition leader María Corina Machado who, he said, embodies “the struggle of the Venezuelan people” and who has the support of the “immense majority” of the people.
Likewise, the former socialist president emphasized the need to make known crimes against humanity and reveal where “the Bolíburgueses who invest in Spain and other European countries have gotten their money.”
In addition, he harshly attacked Maduro for calling the people he terrorizes “terrorists” and talking about “a new democracy in Venezuela.” “This scoundrel always acts and speaks as if he were looking in a mirror. “This bird is always reflecting in the mirror of what the drug trafficker is,” he asserted.
What is a good leader like?
In another order of ideas, he referred to the characteristics that, he considered, a good leader should have. He cited three fundamentally: that it has a project with which it is committed “in a non-mercenary manner”; that takes charge of the “state of mind of the people” and has the ability to “coordinate human teams.”
That said, he stated that the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, “with your chainsaw and all that,” what he got right is that he “took charge of the mood of a society that was fed up, fed up, fed up.” “He tore up the deck and said ‘we’re going to chainsaw everything,'” he said.
He assured that, still today, Milei does not have a political project “unless it is considered a political project to get everything out of the way.”