EP doubts the sincerity of Maduro to accept his electoral defeat

USPA NEWS - The socialist co-President of the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, the Spanish Ramon Jauregui, MEP, issued a statement Thursday in which he expresses his concern about the situation in Venezuela.

"A few months ago, many doubted that Venezuela were to hold legislative elections. When they were called, many doubted that there was electoral fraud in favor of the Government. Well, the elections were held and opposition clearly won. The Government accepted the result and we all welcome this," said Ramon Jauregui in a statement send to USPA News and recalls that "a few days after the December 6 Maduro's Government and his party are doing very disturbing statements about his true intentions, they begin to put in doubt the sincerity of his acceptance of the election results."

The Spanish MEP believes that "dilute the legitimacy of the National Assembly by placing it next to a supposed popular Assembly is to deny the sovereign and democratic character of the elections. Limit the legislative powers granted by the Constitution to the National Assembly is to devalue the Venezuelan democracy and mocking the popular mandate of the people." In his view, "political cohabitation that people have decided should be done, first with scrupulous respect for democratic rules and the Constitution, and second, with dialogue and a spirit of consensus. That is what Venezuela needs and what the Venezuelan people have expressed the December 6."