The People's Party (PP), the main opposition party in Spain, will participate as an international observer in the parliamentary election to be held in Venezuela on September 26, a PP spokesman reported.

Jorge Moragas, the coordinator of International Relations of the Spanish People's Party, told Spanish radio station Cadena Cope that PP lawmakers are visiting Venezuela at the request of the Venezuelan opposition parties, Europa Press reported.

Moragas said that the presence of PP legislators will ensure a "real alternative" to Hugo Chávez's government in the presidential vote to be held in 2012.

"We want (Venezuelan President Hugo) Chávez to leave office in a democratic and peaceful process," Moragas said.

He added that the death of Franklin Brito, a Venezuelan farmer, is just the "tip of the iceberg" formed by a group of Venezuelans and Spaniards whose estates have been expropriated by Chávez.