The head of European diplomacy recalled that the European Union cannot recognise governments or States because they are a power of the member states, but what it can do is “recognise the democratic legitimacy of those who hold power, territorial control, the army, the police”
The High Representative for Foreign Policy of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, said this Friday, September 13, that the European Union does not recognize the “democratic legitimacy” of the government of Nicolás Maduro, because “he says he has won the elections without proving it.”
At a press conference in Madrid, the head of European diplomacy recalled that the EU cannot recognise governments or states because they are a power of the member states, but what it can do is “recognise the democratic legitimacy of those who hold power, territorial control, the army, the police.”
That control, “in fact, was Maduro’s before the elections and remains Maduro’s after the elections. But we do not consider him a person who can claim democratic legitimacy for the power he holds,” he added. review the agency EFE.
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Borrell was responding to a proposal by the European People’s Party Group in the European Parliament, which on Friday urged EU member states to recognise opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as president of Venezuela.
The crisis in Venezuela is expected to be debated in the European Parliament next week and a resolution will be voted on calling on “the EU and its Member States to request an international arrest warrant against Nicolás Maduro for crimes against humanity for all the serious human rights violations he has committed.”
The head of European diplomacy declined to comment on the statements of the Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, who described the regime of Nicolás Maduro as a “dictatorship” and criticized the “limitation of fundamental rights” suffered by the opposition.
Asked about the possibility of meeting opposition candidate Edmundo González, who has been exiled in Madrid since September 8, Borrell said he was open to meeting him, although he recalled that he had been in contact with the leader since before he left Venezuela for Spain.
“We have invited him to come to the (EU) Foreign Affairs Council,” Borrell said, without giving details of González’s response or the date on which it could occur.
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