Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez will remain a "very clear voice" pushing for change in his country despite fleeing to seek asylum in Spain, exiled opposition members Antonio Ledezma and Leopoldo Lopez told Reuters on Tuesday.

After the Maduro regime threatened González with arrest for alleged "terrorism," he was granted political asylum in Spain.

El candidato opositor venezolano Edmundo González se reunió el jueves con el presidente del gobierno de España, Pedro Sánchez, cuatro días después de huir al país europeo en virtud de un acuerdo negociado con el gobierno de Nicolás Maduro.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Thursday met Venezuela's fugitive opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez in Madrid, a day after the lower house of Spain's parliament voted to recognise Gonzalez as the winner of a presidential election in July.

On September 7th, six weeks after he won Venezuela’s presidential election in a landslide, Edmundo González fled for exile in Spain. The regime of Nicolás Maduro (pictured) had accused the affable 75-year-old former diplomat of being a “war criminal” and issued a warrant for his arrest.

Venezuelan presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez will remain a "very clear voice" pushing for change in his country despite fleeing to seek asylum in Spain, exiled opposition members Antonio Ledezma and Leopoldo Lopez told Reuters on Tuesday.

With his flight into exile, González joined the swelling ranks of opposition stalwarts who once fought Maduro before seeking asylum abroad in the face of a brutal crackdown. In S