{"id":416991,"date":"2025-01-23T15:21:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/01\/23\/venezuela-eurocamera-maduro-urrutia\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T15:47:56","slug":"venezuela-for-eu-parlament-support-for-opposition-is-a-moral-duty-concern-for-alberto-trentini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/01\/23\/venezuela-for-eu-parlament-support-for-opposition-is-a-moral-duty-concern-for-alberto-trentini\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela, for EU Parlament support for opposition is a “moral duty”. Concern for Alberto Trentini"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the correspondent\u00a0in Strasbourg<\/em> – Just days after the disputed inauguration of Nicolas Maduro<\/strong> for his third term as president of Venezuela, the European Parliament is once again raising its voice against the Chavista leader’s “illegal attempt to remain in power by force.”\u00a0In a\u00a0resolution<\/a>\u00a0adopted today (Jan. 23) with 374 votes in favour, 53 against and 163 abstentions, Strasbourg called on the international community to stand unconditionally as a “moral duty” alongside the\u00a0“legitimate winner of the presidential elections”<\/strong>\u00a0last July,\u00a0Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the final text was added an amendment proposed by the three MEPs of the Lega, Roberto Vannacci, Susanna Ceccardi <\/strong>and Silvia Sardone<\/strong>, in which the EU Parliament expresses “concern” for Alberto Trentini<\/strong>, an Italian citizen and a volunteer of an NGO arrested by Venezuelan authorities on November 15, 2024 during a humanitarian mission. “There has been no news since his arrest,” the MEPs point out, adding that the 45-year-old cooperator suffers from health problems and does not have medication with him. “We condemn the arbitrary detention of at least 2,500 citizens<\/strong>, including several European citizens. All of them must be released unconditionally,” EU Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilius<\/strong> had said Tuesday, Jan. 21, during a debate in the Strasbourg hemicycle.<\/p>\n

Other amendments to the text proposed by the Patriots for Europe (PfE) and European Conservatives (ECR), which insisted on Venezuela’s ties to Cuba, Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, were rejected. Thus, the so-called “Venezuela majority,” the right-wing bloc composed of Populars (EPP), ECR, PfE and Europe of Sovereign Nations<\/strong> that had supported the first resolution<\/a> of condemnation of Maduro last Sept. 19, fell apart. More than half of the Conservatives\u2014including the Fratelli d’Italia delegation\u2014and almost all of the Patriots broke away, while the EPP remained united with the Socialists and Liberals in support of the text.<\/p>\n

MEPs from the European Left also opposed, while the Greens abstained. Danilo Della Valle<\/strong>, MEP for the 5-Star Movement, had criticized the EU position in the House, arguing that “giving patents of democracy or recognizing self-appointed phoney presidents from Brussels or Washington will only move Venezuela away from peace<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

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Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia during a demonstration in Caracas on 14 July 2024 (Photo by Gabriela Oraa \/ AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Condemning “in the strongest terms the usurpation of the presidency” by Maduro, the EU Parliament recognized Urrutia (who, along with opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament) as the legitimate winner of the elections.\u00a0That is why the MEPs are urging the regime to\u00a0revoke the “unjustified” arrest warrant issued against Urrutia<\/strong>\u00a0and publish the\u00a0July 28<\/a>\u00a0election records, which would prove Maduro’s defeat: “According to publicly available copies of the election records, Urrutia won a large majority of votes,” Kubilius said again in the House.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the resolution, the call also to Brussels\u00a0to\u00a0extend<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and further strengthen the sanctions<\/strong> in place against Caracas, targeting Maduro himself, his inner circle and their families, the President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodr\u00edguez, and the Defense Minister, Vladimir Padrino L\u00f3pez. And “all those responsible for human rights violations and the illegitimate assertion of authority, the usurpation of official functions and repression in Venezuela.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strasbourg hemicycle condemns Maduro’s “usurpation of the presidency” and calls on EU to strengthen sanctions against Caracas. The so-called “Venezuela majority” breaks down: Conservatives, Patriots and Sovereignists abstain, EPP united with Socialists and Liberals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":381312,"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":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","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_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"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[25816,26339,28011,28013],"class_list":["post-416991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-eurocamera-en","tag-nicolas-maduro-en","tag-venezuela-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416991","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\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416991"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417010,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416991\/revisions\/417010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}