The Parliament has recognised Juan Guaidó as interim President of Venezuela and has called on EU Governments and Institutions to do the same until new free and transparent elections are called, reports VOA News.
The resolution was approved with the votes of the two main groups: EPP and socialists.
In an interview with Euronews, the Ambassador of Venezuela to the EU, said this will fuel tensions in the country and as the European member states to act with responsibility.
“The European Parliament can not consider itself above the Security Council. The important thing is to ask whether the European Union is willing to take a step forward to bring Venezuela into a situation of civil war; that is the question that must be asked. Not if Venezuela wants to make changes in its democracy and in its institutional arrangement,” Claudia Salerno, Venezuela’s Ambassador to the EU.
The opposition immediately welcomed the vote in the European Parliament.
But the former mayor of Caracas, who was in the parliament to listen to the debate, said to be carefully about dialogue.
“If a working group is gonna be created, whatever they have in mind to design, I would like to make it very clear that we would only endorse and accept a working group to define the terms of the end of the usurpation, we say no to negotiations to give Maduro oxygen. Any diligence is to put an end to drug tyranny,” Antonio Ledezma, opposition leader and ex-mayor of Caracas told Euronews.
The resolution approved by the parliament calls for the creation of a contact group that can mediate to reach an agreement for the convocation of “free, transparent and credible presidential elections, based on a agreed calendar, on equal conditions for all actors, transparency and the presence of international observers”.