Venezuela: The European Union confirmed that it will not send an electoral observation

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The European Union (EU) considered this Saturday that there is not enough time to send an electoral observation mission to Venezuela if the elections are held for next December 6, since the preparation of this type of missions requires time and the current deadline is too short.

A European spokeswoman confirmed that they have received an invitation from the Venezuelan government to participate as observers in the legislative elections scheduled for December 6 as well as a list of additional guarantees for the transparency of the electoral process.. Minimum conditions must be met in order to send an EU election observation mission. In addition, there is a long waiting time to prepare the dispatch of a complete mission. There is not enough time left if the elections are held for December 6, "the spokeswoman stressed.

The EU had already asked Venezuela for a precise response (...) to the minimum requirements requested by the opposition regarding the holding of the votes after determining in mid-August that at that time the conditions were not in place for send a community observation mission to the country. The parliamentary elections of December 6 have generated a wide rejection in many sectors of the Venezuelan opposition due to the lack of guarantees, which has led them to describe these elections as fraud.

The interim president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, has defended the option of not participating in the parliamentary elections called for December 6 and has said that the opposite would be to surrender near the goal. To reduce our request would be to please the oppressor and surrender close to the goal, Guaidó said in an interview with Cadena Ser in which he recognized that the regime has clung to power and has resisted civic pressure and pressure. international.

Guaidó has argued that the majority of Venezuelans want alternatives and that the objective for the elections is to achieve a pressure process that leads to free, fair and verifiable elections. In this sense, he has assured that the option to give in is not on the horizon for Venezuelans knowing that there is a country with great potential and enormous opportunities.. We have to fight until we achieve it, he pointed out.

The commissioned president has argued that it is necessary to seek alternatives to the fraud that the regime seeks and has emphasized the requirement of ten mandatory compliance points in order to guarantee that the process would be fair. The conditions of the opposition which seem almost obvious include the right to be electe, the release of 300 political prisoners and the end of dozens of disqualifications as well as that the political parties return to the hands of their leaders.

On the other hand, he has criticized that the regime unilaterally appointed the National Electoral Council (CNE) and recalled that it is the Parliament that decides it, while adding that the electoral calendar contemplates that there be presidential before the parliamentarians. The latest request stems from the need for international observers during the vote. Today the Maduro dictatorship does not comply before ruling out going to the elections in case there is international observation. One of five conditions are not conditions, Guaidó has argued.

He said if the EU and the international community can help today, it is to set these elementary conditions very hard to turn the electoral process in Venezuela into a real solution to the conflict and that it does not serve the dictatorship to validate a nefarious regime that today has five million of refugees in Latin America.