Overview
- María Corina Machado said she will not meet Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez during her Spain visit because, in her words, the timing does not serve her goal right now.
- Her Madrid agenda includes meetings with PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Vox leader Santiago Abascal, plus events with Madrid’s regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso and the city’s mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida.
- The Venezuelan opposition leader is on a European tour that included talks with France’s Emmanuel Macron and a planned meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten.
- She welcomed recent U.S. Treasury action lifting sanctions on Venezuela’s central bank and three banks, saying this enables audits, restores banking ties, and could open work with the International Monetary Fund.
- Machado said U.S. official Marco Rubio told her a process for free, inclusive elections will open, and she urged appointing a credible electoral council as she prepares to return to Venezuela in the coming weeks.