Venezuelan opposition parties in Madrid call for rejection a new Constituent Assembly

Record ID: 904494

  • Title: Venezuelan opposition parties in Madrid call for rejection a new Constituent Assembly
  • Date: 28th July 2017
  • Summary: MADRID, SPAIN (JULY 28, 2017) (REUTERS) REPRESENTATIVES OF DIFFERENT VENEZUELAN OPPOSITION PARTIES AT NEWS CONFERENCE VARIOUS OF POLITICIAN SHOWING LETTER PARTIES WILL SUBMIT TO GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PRIMERO JUSTICIA (JUSTICE FIRST) PARTY MEMBER, ALEX OJEDA, SAYING: "We urge the Spanish authorities and political leaders to show openly and overwhelmingly their rejection of the fraudulent new Constituent Assembly which Nicolas Maduro is convening, and that we know is a mechanism to stay in the government and to eliminate all the powers or instances which can make opposition." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PRIMERO JUSTICIA (JUSTICE FIRST) PARTY MEMBER, ALEX OJEDA, SAYING: "We call on the Spanish authorities, leaders and to the International community to urge Nicolas Maduro's government to open a humanitarian channel for Venezuela in order to help with the shortages our people are suffering." OJEDA TALKING AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) PRIMERO JUSTICIA (JUSTICE FIRST) PARTY MEMBER, ALEX OJEDA, SAYING: "We insist, the international community has a lot to say and it can't remain indifferent to what's happening in Venezuela and to a crisis we are sure will be deeply aggravated from Sunday, and it can reach levels of even greater violence than those we are looking at right now." VARIOUS OF MEMBERS OF VENEZUELA OPPOSITION PARTIES POSING WITH LETTER
  • Embargoed: 11th August 2017 11:23
  • Keywords: Venezuela opposition Madrid parties oppose Madrid Venezuela Madrid news conference
  • Location: MADRID, SPAIN
  • City: MADRID, SPAIN
  • Country: Spain
  • Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016RMTKQV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Representatives of several Venezuelan opposition parties in Madrid on Friday (July 28) urged Spain's government and other countries to reject new Constituent Assembly elections which will be held on Sunday (July 30), and to pressure the government of President Nicolas Maduro to declare a humanitarian crisis in the country.
    Alex Ojeda, a member of the Primero Justicia (Justice First) party, said the new Constituent Assembly is a mechanism to eliminate opposition and current violence in Venezuela could be exacerbated after Sunday's elections.
    The government banned protests from Friday to Tuesday, raising the likelihood of more violence in the volatile country.
    Earlier on Friday morning, the United Nations said the Venezuelan government must allow peaceful protests and freedom of expression, in an appeal for calm ahead of Sunday's elections.
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