The European Parliament will recognize Juan Guaidó as interim President of Venezuela

The European Parliament will vote tomorrow on a resolution recognizing Juan Guaidó as interim President of Venezuela when he will note that Nicolás Maduro "Publicly rejected the possibility of holding new presidential elections" after the request of the European Union.

Sources of popular and socialist groups in the European Parliament, the two main parties, confirmed to the EFE agency that they would vote in favor of this resolution, he therefore already has enough support among parliamentarians to go forward.

"The European Parliament recognizes Juan Guaidó as the legitimate interim president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in accordance with Venezuela's Constitution … and expresses his full support for his roadmap," said the Parliament. in the resolution that will be voted on Thursday and which EFE had access to today.

The resolution is also drafted on behalf of the Conservatives and Reformers Group (RCC) and the Liberal Group (ALDE), although liberal sources suggest that some of the members of this group could not join the support.

The text also calls on the head of European diplomacy, Federica Mogheriniand EU Member States to recognize Guaidó "Until new free, transparent and credible presidential elections can be convened to restore democracy."

The resolution condemns violence and repression in the country and rejects "any proposal or attempt that may involve the use of violence to resolve the crisis".

He also repeats that the opposition National Assembly is "the only legitimate democratic organization in Venezuela" and stresses that its powers "must be restored and respected", including "the security of its members".

The European Parliament held this afternoon a debate on the situation in Venezuela with the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Christos Stylianides, which reiterated that "fair and free" elections are "the only way out of this crisis".

"The crisis is worsening day by day and we risk destabilizing the whole region"warned the commissioner, who also recalled that millions of people had already left the country and that the Venezuelan people "had called for a mbad democracy".

Stylianides pointed out that the EU "has made its voice heard" with the statement on behalf of the Twenty-Eight, in which it called for the rapid organization "of free, fair, democratic and political elections. credible "to which all forces can participate.

"If new elections are not announced, Europeans will continue to take action, including on the issue of recognition of the country's leadership, "said the Commissioner.

In the ensuing debate with MEPs, Esteban González Pons, spokesman for the ruling Eurocámara party, asked about "what Europe is waiting for". while "all Venezuela is watching" and asked the EU to recognize Guaidó as president.

"Venezuelans in the street are not Europeans, but they are fighting for the same values ​​that we are fighting for, to have a decent life and for freedom, "said González Pons, who stated that" in the field of democracy, equality and dignity in the world, there are no borders ".

The MEP insisted that "Europe" could not be equidistant "from this crisis and asked, in addition to the recognition of Guaidó, a" peaceful transition "of powers and that the EU put at the disposal of the new authorities a set of measures to alleviate the humanitarian crisis that the country is experiencing.

The Spanish Socialist MEP Ramón Jáuregui He insisted, for his part, on the fact that Europe "had established a reasonable criterion" by giving the Venezuelan leader, Nicolás Maduro, a deadline to call elections.

Jáuregui defended that the EU had given priority to the possibility of an agreement between the government and the opposition authorizing the holding of elections with guarantees, with a deadline, and has recalled that Maduro had warned that he would recognize Guaidó if he did not comply with it. term.

"This House will do it," said Jáuregui, noting that MEPs would vote on a resolution on Thursday, adding that "EU member states will also do so in the coming days."

For its part, the MEP Citizens Javier Nart He described Venezuela as "a social, economic, institutional and national abyss" and quoted Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin as saying that "exile is a referendum in which one votes with one's feet", and that He has already done in this case, he said. "Three million votes."

"To ask a president who is not president to act as president and to call an election, it is not only surrealism worthy of Salvador Dalí, it is simply of Marxism, but also from the Groucho Marx version ", criticized Nart.