Venezuela opposition candidate Edmundo González leaves country for Spain

The Venezuelan authorities has mentioned opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González has left the country, searching for asylum in Spain.

Mr González has been in hiding, and a warrant issued for his arrest after the opposition disputed July’s presidential election outcome – during which the government-controlled National Electoral Council (CNE) declared Nicolás Maduro the winner.

“After taking refuge voluntarily at the Spanish embassy in Caracas a few days ago, (Gonzalez Urrutia) asked the Spanish government for political asylum,” Venezuela’s Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez mentioned on social media.

She added that Caracas had agreed to his protected passage and that he had left.

Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs José Manuel Albares mentioned Mr González had departed the country at his personal request, and on a Spanish Air Force airplane.

He added that Spain’s authorities is dedicated to the political rights of all Venezuelans.

Venezuela has been in a political disaster since authorities declared President Maduro the victor of the 28 July election.

The opposition claimed it had proof Mr González had gained by a cushty margin, and uploaded detailed voting tallies to the web which counsel Mr González beat Mr Maduro convincingly.

Numerous nations, together with the United States, the European Union and several other Latin American nations, have refused to acknowledge President Maduro because the winner with out Caracas releasing detailed voting information.

Prior to leaving the country, Mr González had been in hiding for a month, ignoring three successive summons to seem earlier than prosecutors.

Post-election violence in Venezuela has claimed 27 lives and left 192 individuals injured whereas the federal government says it has arrested some 2,400 individuals.