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Sánchez avoids ruling on whether Maduro is a dictator and does not clarify whether he or Guaidó is the president of Venezuela

MADRID, 24 Ago.

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Sánchez avoids ruling on whether Maduro is a dictator and does not clarify whether he or Guaidó is the president of Venezuela

MADRID, 24 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has avoided commenting on whether he considers Nicolás Maduro to be a dictator and has not clarified whether for Spain he is the legitimate president of Venezuela or the opposition Juan Guaidó, head of the National Assembly elected in 2015. .

In an interview with the W Radio station during his trip to Colombia, collected by Europa Press, Sánchez has avoided answering the journalist about whether he believes that Maduro is a dictator.

"Spain has always advocated the democratic re-institutionalization of Venezuela" and that the way out of the crisis in the country "was based on dialogue and the holding of elections", Sánchez has contented himself with pointing out, and for this reason he has supported the different dialogues with Maduro. "That is where the Government of Spain is going to be," he insisted.

Given the lack of response, the interviewer has asked the president at least to clarify who Spain considers to be the legitimate president of Venezuela, Maduro -- re-elected in 2018 in elections that the international community does not recognize -- or Guaidó, who proclaimed himself president in charge in January 2019 in his capacity as president of the National Assembly elected in 2015 in the last internationally recognized elections.

Sánchez has acknowledged that this is "a debate" within the international community after Spain and "many" European countries recognized Guaidó as "legitimate president".

"We now have an institutional duality that has to be resolved," he added. "We advocate for this dialogue and for there to be a democratic re-institutionalization of Venezuela," she insisted, without entering into further evaluations.

On the other hand, he has considered "good and positive" that the new Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, has decided to restore relations with Venezuela, suspended under the presidency of Iván Duque after the recognition of Guaidó as president.