The Congress of Deputies of Spain approved this Thursday (12) a Non-Law Proposal (PNL) to ask the government to support the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) into alleged crimes against humanity in Venezuela.
The proposal, registered by the Popular Party, also asks the Executive to request the body’s Preliminary Questions Chamber for an arrest warrant against Nicolás Maduro and other possible perpetrators of these crimes.
The parliamentary initiative also urges Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to issue “a public statement addressed to Maduro demanding the immediate cessation of repression and the release of all political prisoners and people arbitrarily detained.”
According to the lawmakers, this would support “UN reports recording serious human rights violations in Venezuela.”
The party also demands that the government present to the Chamber, within a month, “a report on the actions carried out by the Spanish Embassy in Venezuela in defense of the fundamental rights of Spanish citizens who are victims of crimes against humanity”.
The initiative is not binding. It is an instrument with which Parliament expresses its position on a specific issue with the aim of exerting pressure on the government.
Spokesperson talks about “abandonment” suffered by Venezuelans
“The abandonment suffered by Venezuelan democrats is an international shame,” said the deputy spokesperson for the Popular Group in Parliament, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, when presenting the project on Tuesday (10).
“What else needs to happen so that the end of the Venezuelan dictatorship is a priority for the international community, so that democratic governments, starting with the Spanish, abandon their indifference and their equidistance, their cowardice and their complicity?” , asked Álvarez de Toledo
“The arrest of María Corina Machado is necessary [líder da oposição venezuelana]?”, he continued.
This content was originally published in Spain’s Congress of Deputies asks the government to request Maduro’s arrest from the ICC on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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