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The Governing Body of the City of Murcia has agreed this morning at the weekly meeting of the Governing Board show support for the mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma, and demands their immediate release and that of all mayors arrested for expressing freely their ideas.

Last Friday, February 20, the Bolivarian Intelligence Service arrested the mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledesma, leader of the Social Democratic Alliance Bravo Pueblo, is one of the most important opposition leaders.

Ledezma is a stronghold of municipalismo and democracy in their country, and before reaching the Mayor of Caracas, had served as mayor of the Libertador municipality of Caracas.

For more than a year in prison the main leader of the opposition to the Government of Venezuela Leopoldo Lopez, former mayor of Chacao municipality of Caracas and other former opposition mayors, Enzo Scarano, the municipality of San Diego, and Daniel Ceballos, of the city of San Cristobal.

The arrest of the mayor of Caracas has provoked international condemnation and in this sense:

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, has expressed "alarm" over the arrest of the mayor of Caracas (Venezuela), Antonio Ledezma, and urged the Venezuelan authorities "to stop the facts lead to a spiral of polarization "in the country.

Meanwhile, the humanitarian organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for the release of the mayor of Caracas, Antonio Ledezma opposition following his arrest "arbitrary" by agents of the Venezuelan intelligence service, since no evidence of the commission of a crime, the mayor should never have been detained and should be immediately released.

The Socialist International, in a statement said that "Venezuela has begun to live on arbitrariness, in anguish and only comparable repressive authoritarian regimes of the past".

Make the Bolivarian regime loses Venezuela "legitimacy daily by the weight of their violations of Human Rights, inhuman and degrading treatment and deploys imposed against the leaders of their democratic forces and their own citizens."

Concludes by asking "the immediate release of all political prisoners."

In Spain, from the National Government has called on the State of Venezuela to respect freedom of enterprise, expression and opinion because part of any democracy that claims to be.

The Mayor of Madrid and Co-Chair of the Union of Latin American Capital Cities has expressed his concern and worry over the arrest of Dr. Antonio Ledezma and urged the authorities to reverse this situation is jeopardizing the rights and Safeguards Antonio Ledezma and all citizens.

The Board of Governors of the FEMP has agreed to join these initiatives and request the release of Antonio Ledezma.

Therefore, this morning, the Governing Board has adopted the following resolutions:

1. We join the concern of the international community and human rights institutions to the increasing practice of arbitrary detention and imprisonment Mayors and opposition leaders in Venezuela and requests the Government of that country behave according to what is meant by the rule of law.

2. The Governing Board of the City of Murcia publicly expressed their solidarity with Mr. Antonio Ledezma, Metropolitan Mayor of Caracas and demands their immediate release and that of all mayors arrested by freely express their ideas.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia