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Meanwhile, defence minister Margarita Robles’s description of the Maduro government as “a dictatorship” drew a fierce diplomatic response from Venezuela.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">However, the Venezuelan government has since revealed that while taking refuge in the Spanish ambassador’s residence, Mr González signed a document acknowledging Mr Maduro’s electoral victory. Mr González has said that he signed it under duress and only in order to ensure his safe conduct to Spain.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fF3YXEzrty1PE-3-4-3-f285ac97d7bbf" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:550px"><div id="arcad_f0fF3YXEzrty1PE-3-4-3-f285ac97d7bbf" class="arcad ad-550x250"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Esteban González Pons, a spokesman for the PP, accused the Spanish government of being “an accomplice of the regime of Nicolás Maduro in the plan to neuter the democratic opposition” and condemned what he described as the “connivance of Spain in a coup d’état”.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo called for the resignation of the Spanish ambassador and the foreign minister and said that Spanish diplomacy should not be “at the service of a dictatorial regime”.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Relations between Spain’s two main parties have long been poor, but the use of such language over an international issue has caused them to deteriorate further.</p><p class="c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link"><span>[ </span><a aria-label="Open related story" class="c-link" href="https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2024/09/16/spain-and-us-deny-venezuelas-claims-of-plot-to-kill-maduro/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Spain and US deny Venezuela’s claims of plot to kill Maduro<span class="visually-hidden">Opens in new window</span></a><span> ]</span></p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Foreign minister José Manuel Albares said that the PP was “slandering and publicly damaging Spain”. He also insisted that the Spanish government had no involvement in Mr González’s decision to sign the document in the ambassador’s residence.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Mr González himself confirmed this version of events with a recorded video statement.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“I was not coerced by the Spanish government or the Spanish ambassador in Venezuela,” he said, thanking “the Spanish authorities for their support and commitment to the protection of human rights”.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fyRwJHzrty1c0-3-4-4-1a208db8639653" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:550px"><div id="arcad_f0fyRwJHzrty1c0-3-4-4-1a208db8639653" class="arcad ad-550x250"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">The Spanish government has resisted demands to acknowledge Mr González as president-elect of Venezuela, calling for electoral results to be made public first. 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