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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro rejected the European ultimatum by ruling out holding new presidential elections, while declaring that he would support the next meeting of an international contact group at of an interview with the broadcaster in the interview granted to the Spanish broadcaster La Sexta. published on Sunday (3).
Sunday after midnight, when several European countries won the European ultimatum to call elections, Maduro said he would not give the "hand arm to encourage cowardice in the face of pressure".
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Spain, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal and the Netherlands gave Maduro an ultimatum and warned that if he did not comply, they will recognize the self-proclaimed president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, who already has the support of the United States and several Latin American countries .
"They are trying to get us stuck in the ultimatum to force us to get into an extreme situation of confrontation," complained Maduro, insisting on his proposal for early elections to Parliament, controlled by opposition.
Maduro said that he also supported the "good initiative" of an international contact group made up of countries of the European Union and Latin America such as the United States. Uruguay and Mexico, which aims to "promote a political and peaceful process" to overcome the crisis. Venezuelan and will hold its first meeting on February 7 in Montevideo.
"I support this conference … I bet that this initiative will bring a negotiating table, a dialogue between Venezuelans, to solve our problems, to plan a plan, a way to solve the problems of Venezuela," said Maduro.
During the interview, the President of the Republic sent a message to Guaidó: "Abandon the coup strategy, which wants to make a valuable contribution, must sit at a face-to-face conversation table "with the Maduro government.
Guaidó had already stated that he would not lend himself to "fake" dialogues giving oxygen to the government and that the Venezuelans "would continue on the street until the day of the war. "Maduro's usurpation" stops.
Guaidó is proclaimed acting president on January 23, after Congress declared Maduro "usurper" after taking Jan. 10 a second term that he considers illegitimate – and part of the community international – as a result of fraudulent elections.
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