These statements were made hours after Mulino received Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia at the Palacio de las Garzas, who presented copies of the minutes proving his victory in the presidential elections of July 28 in Venezuela.

Venezuela’s exiled opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia has urged the Venezuelan military to recognize him as their commander-in-chief and “put an end to the leadership” of President Nicolás Maduro,

Venezuela's Edmundo González Urrutia, who the opposition says won a July presidential election against incumbent Nicolás Maduro, condemned on Tuesday the detention of his son-in-law by "hooded men." "This morning my son-in-law Rafael Tudares was kidnapped," Gonzalez Urrutia posted on social media platform X.