The Prime Minister of Portugal also welcomed the release of Portuguese-Venezuelan Héctor Ferreira Domingues, detained since September 2022
The Portuguese Prime Minister considered this Wednesday that the current political moment in Venezuela is “one of democratic transition” and said he hopes that there will soon be “absolutely free” elections, after receiving the opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Luís Montenegro, who met in the early afternoon with María Corina Machado, at the official residence in São Bento, welcomed the release of the Portuguese-Venezuelan citizen Héctor Ferreira Domingues, detained since September 2022, and who was announced on Tuesday night.
Speaking to the press after the meeting, which lasted around 40 minutes, the prime minister said he had conveyed the Portuguese Government’s position that “this circumstance that the country is experiencing could be a moment of democratic transition”.
“And that, in the shortest possible time, people who are exiled can return to the country, as is her case [María Corina]and an electoral act can be held in which, absolutely freely, the Venezuelan people can choose their future and all the opportunities that the country has can be enjoyed by its people”, he added.
María Corina Machado did not provide a statement.
