The Diplomat The PP has registered in Congress two questions to the Government to find out if it has supported Venezuelans living in Spain and if it has defended "their legitimate right" to vote, after Venezuela imposed obstacles to its citizens abroad to exercise their right to vote. Fifteen Popular MPs, led by their spokesman, Miguel Tellado, have asked to know if the Executive has adopted any measures after the Joint Congress-Senate Committee on the European Union unanimously approved a non-legislative proposal on 19 June for the EU to exercise its electoral observation functions in the Venezuelan elections, held on Sunday 28 July. Among the requests included in that initiative was a call to the government to "support the Venezuelan community in Spain" in their "legitimate right to vote in a democratic process that defines the future of their country". In the elections, only 25,000 of the 400,000 Venezuelans living in Spain were able to cast their vote, according to the Venezuelan electoral authority, due to administrative obstacles to registration on the electoral roll. The 'populares' also ask the government if it has fulfilled another of the commitments of the initiative, which called for "reaffirming the commitment of Spain and the EU to democratic principles, human rights and the rule of law in Venezuela", as well as "promoting cooperation" with other international actors such as the Organisation of American States (OAS). Finally, the non-legislative proposal included a request for Spain to reject "the withdrawal of the invitation to the EU by the regime of Nicolás Maduro" to participate as an observer in the presidential elections of 28 July. "The Government must answer what measures it adopted in response to the Parliament's mandates for the last elections in Venezuela", explained PP sources, who shared their concern that none of these measures had been taken before the elections, "given what happened". In their questions to the Executive, to which Europa Press has had access, Alberto Núñez Feijóo's party asks whether the Government has taken "any measures" to comply "with the requests of the initiatives approved" by the European Union Commission of the Congress and, if so, what they are.
