Venezuela: Leopoldo López places himself "at the disposal of the Justice" of Spain after Maduro's extradition request

The opposition Leopoldo López has affirmed this Thursday that he makes himself “at the disposal of the Justice” of Spain, after the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela (TSJ) approved to request his extradition so that he could serve the rest of his sentence in Venezuelan territory. “Faced with the persecution of the Maduro dictatorship, now reflected in an illegal extradition request, once again I put myself at the disposal of justice; this time in a country with democratic institutions, separation of powers and justice, in which I fully trust, “said López through his account on the social network Twitter. López has also published a document in which his legal representative, Roberto Alonso Verdú, transfers to the National High Court the “absolute disposition” of the opponent to “appear voluntarily as many times as he is called by this illustrious Hearing on the occasion of the extradition initiated.” “It is your honor’s interest to avoid pre-procedural measures and / or police, having already appeared and fully available to the competent judicial authority, “adds the text. The Supreme Court declared on Tuesday” appropriate “to request the Spanish authorities the extradition of López, who was sentenced to fourteen years in prison in 2015 for inciting violence in the revolts of the opposition a year earlier against the government of President Nicolás Maduro, specifying that López has yet to fulfill a to penalty of «eight years, six months, 25 days and 12 hours, for having been convicted of the commission of the crimes of determiner in the crime of arson, determiner in the crime of damage, author in the crime of public instigation and the of association ».At the end of October 2020, López, leader of the opposition Popular Will party, left the Spanish Embassy in Caracas, where he had been since April 30, 2019, to clandestinely cross the border with Colombia, from where he flew to Spain.