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Belgium is to Puigdemont what Spain is to González, writes columnist Mark Nayler

Mark Nayler

Malaga

Friday, 13 September 2024, 15:10

Comparing Edmundo González to Carles Puigdemont is an illuminating exercise. Commenting on the Venezuelan opposition leader's flight to Spain last weekend, Josep Borrell, a ... member of the PSOE and the EU's foreign secretary, said that no politician who operates in a democracy "should be forced to seek asylum in another country". The implication, of course, was that Venezuela is not a properly-functioning democracy - that González is on the run from a repressive state that has zero respect for political freedom or the rule of law.

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