The Diplomat
The spokeswoman of the Popular Parliamentary Group in the Foreign Affairs Committee the Congress, Valentina Martínez Ferro, yesterday asked the Government “what is it waiting for” to recognise Juan Guiadó as interim president of Venezuela, as the United States has done.
On her Twitter account, the PP deputy included the statement from the Biden Administration in which the United States supports the constitutional continuity of the Presidency-in-Charge as the “only democratic institution” left in Venezuela and welcomes the agreement ratifying Juan Guaidó as interim president of the country.
Venezuela’s opposition National Assembly on Monday approved the constitutional continuity of the Presidency-in-Charge, held by opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who welcomed the ratification of his commitment to the “defence of Venezuelans”.
Martínez Ferro underlines the US decision and asks the government of Pedro Sánchez “what are you waiting for”. The Spanish Executive, which when Guaidó was elected to the post, gave its recognition, progressively stopped referring to him as president-in-charge of Venezuela.
On the contrary, neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden stopped considering Guaidó as president in charge and the US State Department insisted in a statement on its support for the president in charge and added: “The United States supports the Venezuelan people in their desire for a peaceful restoration of democracy through free and fair elections”.
In addition, Washington condemned the Maduro regime’s “political repression and “rampant human rights abuses”, while criticising the “severe” restrictions on political and civil society actors”. “They have robbed the Venezuelan people of democratic self-determination,” he said.
For its part, the Venezuelan government, in a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, rejected the US pronouncement and described it as a “violation of international law, the constitution and democratic order”.
