They expelled from Venezuela members of the European Parliament who planned to meet Guaidó

The first vice-president of the EPP group and spokesperson for the Spanish delegation of the PP in the European Parliament, Esteban González Pons, who also heads the delegation to visit Venezuela, denounced Sunday what was expelled from the country a few minutes after landing at Simón Bolívar International Airport. "At this moment, we are expelled from Venezuela, our pbadports have been withheld, we have not been informed of the reason for the eviction, and we have no document justifying why they are sending us back out of the country, "said González Pons in a video posted in your Twitter account.

According to the agency EuropaPress, the EPP delegation is formed, besides González Pons, by Esther de Lange and Paulo Rangel, Vice-Presidents of the EPP Group; José Ignacio Salafranca, vice-coordinator of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and member of the Latin American Assembly of Europe; Gabriel Mato, vice president of the delegation of Central America; and Juan Salafranca, Deputy Secretary General of the EPP Parliamentary Group.

González Pons said that everyone had an invitation from the National Assembly of Venezuela, which he defined as "an internationally recognized body recognized even by Maduro himself". The invitation was made by the chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Policy, Sovereignty and Integration of the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Francisco Sucre, on behalf of the so-called "president in charge" of the country, Juan Guaidó.

A few minutes earlier, the head of the delegation reported that during the stopover in Santo Domingo, the two the ambbadador of the European Union as Spain had been warned that they could be "expelled or detained". "It's not a matter of not letting us in, but not letting interim President Juan Guaidó see a foreign personality in Venezuela," González Pons said. "When a dictator closes the windows and turns off the lights, it goes from words to deeds," he added.

After the incident, Nicolás Maduro's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza, badured that the regime will not allow the "European far right" to affect the country's "peace and stability". "The constitutional government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will not allow the European far right to disturb the peace and stability of the country with another of its rude interventionist actions, Venezuela is respected!" Said Arreaza on Twitter.

Moreover, Arreaza insisted that the Chavista government inform MEPs several days ago that they were going to Venezuela for "conspiracy purposes, that they would not be allowed and that They were invited to give up and avoid another provocation ". This happened weeks after the European Parliament approved a resolution in which it recognized the opposition Juan Guaidó as "the legitimate acting president of Venezuela". The European Parliament has also called on the diplomatic service of the European Union (EU) and the participating countries to approve an equal resolution.

S.D.