In the lead-up to Venezuela's presidential inauguration, self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González visited Panama to garner regional backing for the opposition's claims of victory in the July election against President Nicolás Maduro.
González, accompanied by a group of former Latin American leaders, held a meeting with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino at the presidential palace. During the meeting, González presented what he claimed to be the original ballot tallies indicating his landslide win in the July 28 presidential elections.
