Oslo, December 12 (EFE). – Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado was received in audience this Friday at the Royal Palace in Oslo by the Norwegian Kings Harald V and Sonia and Crown Prince Haakon.
After her meeting with members of the royal family, Machado, accompanied by Vice President of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Asle Toje, returned to the Grand Hotel in Oslo, where she made her first public appearance since January last year in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The Nobel Prize ceremony for Machado last Wednesday, for which the winner was unable to arrive on time, was presided over by the royals and crown princes Haakon and Mette-Marit and their daughter, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, who made her debut at the annual event.
On the same day, at the Royal Palace in Oslo, the monarchs received in an audience Ana Corina Sosa, the daughter of the opposition leader, who accepted the award and read the acceptance speech on behalf of her mother.
The Crown Prince and Princess Ingrid Alexandra were also present at Sosa’s audience.
Machado, who deserves the award “for her fight for a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy,” as the royal family remembers it, landed in the Norwegian capital hours later and, visibly tired but smiling, walked up to the balcony of the Grand Hotel in Oslo at dawn to greet her supporters gathered outside.
She later left the building to approach the dozens of Venezuelans stationed on the street to greet her. EFE
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