{"id":391232,"date":"2024-09-19T19:13:43","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T17:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/09\/19\/destra-ue-risoluzione-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T14:14:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T12:14:45","slug":"eu-parliament-right-wing-majority-attempts-maduro-condemned-by-compact-voting-of-epp-ecr-and-sovereignists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/09\/19\/eu-parliament-right-wing-majority-attempts-maduro-condemned-by-compact-voting-of-epp-ecr-and-sovereignists\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament, right-wing majority attempts: Maduro condemned by compact voting of EPP, ECR, and sovereignists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The European Parliament<\/strong> today (September 19) approved a resolution<\/a> that recognises the presidency of<\/strong> Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez Urrutia in Venezuela<\/strong> as “legitimate<\/strong> and democratically elected<\/strong>” and “strongly condemns<\/strong> and rejects<\/strong> in toto the\u00a0electoral fraud<\/strong>.” However, the news is different: the text, proposed by popular and conservative parties, passed thanks to the compact vote of the right wing of the Strasbourg Chamber\u00a0and despite the abstention of the Liberals and the opposition of the Social Democrats.<\/p>\n

At the first plenary session\u2014after the inaugural one in July\u2014the scenario of a right-wing majority “as needed” is already opening up. The resolution on Venezuela stems from a joint proposal by the EPP and ECR\u00a0and was\u00a0approved thanks to the unity of the\u00a0right-wing groups in the Parliament<\/strong>: in addition to the European People’s Party and the European Conservatives and Reformists, strong support from the Patriots for Europe group and “Europe of Sovereign Nations.”<\/p>\n

The Lega<\/strong>, in a note, reiterated its\u00a0key role played, along with that of “Patriots for\u00a0Europe,” in the approval and the\u00a0 PD, M5S and AVS left<\/strong>,\u00a0who shamefully chose not to stand up for rights, freedom and democracy, was defeated<\/strong>.” MEP<\/strong> Carlo Fidanza of ECR<\/strong> also denounced the left<\/strong> for what he called “complicit silence<\/strong>.” He argued that “every extra day given to Maduro is a favour to those who want to turn all of Latin America into the fifth column of Russia, China, and Iran.”<\/p>\n

T<\/span>hrough<\/span>\u00a0its president,\u00a0Val\u00e9rie Hayer<\/strong>, Renew Europe<\/strong> communicated and explained its decision not to vote today<\/strong>. “Renew Europe fully supports the Venezuelan opposition leader but does not intend to enter into political agreements with so-called ‘patriots,’<\/strong>” Hayer commented, reiterating that “the rise of extremism poses a direct threat to Europe’s stability and future, and all political parties must take a stand against it.”<\/p>\n

The Socialists and Democrats Group\u00a0<\/strong>follows the same line<\/strong>, criticising the\u00a0EPP’s decision to <\/strong>“ally itself with the extreme right in the European Parliament<\/strong>.”<\/span>\u00a0Javi L\u00f3pez<\/strong>, vice-president of the European Parliament and S&D negotiator for the resolution on the situation in Venezuela, again speaking of the EPP,\u00a0criticised<\/strong><\/span> the decision “to build an agreement on Venezuela with Meloni, Orb\u00e1n and Le Pen<\/strong>, together with the support of the German far right, instead of pro-European groups.”<\/p>\n

Condemnation of Maduro and restoration of democracy. Key points of the resolution<\/h3>\n
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Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia at a press point after the elections in Venezuela. (Photo by Federico PARRA \/ AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many (legitimate) doubts<\/a> from the international community after the re-election of Nicolas Maduro and even more concern<\/a> for the regime’s clampdown on the opposition.\u00a0The European Parliament, or at least the “European right” today, took a stand,\u00a0approving the motion with 309 votes in favour, 201 against and 12 abstentions<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0The final resolution has key points: restoring democracy in Venezuela<\/strong>, condemning Maduro and human rights violations<\/strong>, and avoiding<\/strong> other migration crises<\/strong> in the region.<\/p>\n

Parliament’s first request to Venezuelan electoral authorities is to publish<\/strong> “complete, transparent, and detailed voting results<\/strong>” respecting the people’s will. In 2023, the Maduro government and the Venezuelan opposition alliance (Plataforma Unitaria Democr\u00e1tica) signed a partial agreement on promoting political rights and electoral guarantees for all (called the Barbados Agreement), to guarantee “free and fair” elections, which Parliament recalls was not respected.\u00a0Further confirmation comes from the arrest warrant against the president-elect<\/strong> (who fled to Spain in early September), which MEPs strongly condemned<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The EU and member states<\/strong> are urged to commit to allowing the president-elect to take office on January 10, 2025<\/strong>,\u00a0thereby avoiding<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0the risk of a migratory exodus<\/strong> to countries in the region, such as “the one that has led nearly eight\u00a0million Venezuelans to flee the country in recent years.”<\/p>\n

There was also a strong condemnation of human rights violations<\/strong> against regime opponents and civil society. Consistently, the Parliament demands the release of prisoners and individuals arbitrarily detained<\/strong>, compensation for them, and the restoration of their full social and political rights. There was great support for international actions dealing with investigations on Venezuelan territory, with a request to the UN Human Rights Council to renew the fact-finding<\/em> mission dealing with Venezuela.<\/p>\n

The Parliament also called for restoring sanctions against members of the NEC<\/strong>, lifted in May 2024 by the EU “as a goodwill gesture,” but this did not yield any results. The demand is that the sanctions against the regime be “extended and expanded to apply targeted human rights sanctions”<\/strong> against (theoretically outgoing) President Maduro and his associates, who are responsible for human rights violations in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The final resolution has key points: restoring democracy in Venezuela, condemning Maduro and human rights violations, and avoiding other migration crises in the region. Left critical of EPP, Lega satisfied with result<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7877,"featured_media":381289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[26637,28051,26143,26990,29045,26408,28013],"class_list":["post-391232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ecr-en","tag-european-right-en","tag-alloy-en-2","tag-ppe-and","tag-resolution-en","tag-socialisti-e-democratici-en","tag-venezuela-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392150,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391232\/revisions\/392150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}