The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, assured this Wednesday that he has “no problem” in receiving the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who will be in Spain from April 18 to 20, but he is not aware that she has requested it.
In an interview on Radio Nacional de España, the public radio, he was also convinced that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, would also have no problem meeting with the opposition leader, although the minister specified that he “does not own” the agenda of the head of the Executive.
Machado will be in Madrid on Saturday the 18th at an event with Venezuelans residing in Spain, as confirmed on Tuesday in a video published in
Senate sources informed EFE today that the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner will visit the Upper House on Monday the 20th and is scheduled to meet that day with the president of the Senate, Pedro Rollán,
Albares said that he has spoken with Machado on several occasions and insisted that “there is no problem in receiving her at any level.”
Unlike other parties, the minister noted in reference to the conservative Popular Party (PP), “we do not have our candidate in Caracas,” and insisted that what the Government wants is for the Venezuelan people “in a free, peaceful and genuinely Venezuelan manner” to decide who their president will be while others “have already decided here, in Spain.”
