Venezuela Will Not Admit Spanish Delegation for Elections

In the absence of an invitation to observe the presidential elections on July 28, Venezuelan authorities will not allow a delegation from the Spanish Senate to enter the country. Right-wing delegations sent from Europe and other “Western” countries to elections in socialist and anti-imperialist countries have been a long-standing practice as a propaganda tool for their imperialist agendas.

According to Europa Press, the Venezuelan government reported that the presence of the delegation the Spanish kingdom planned to send to Venezuela will not be accepted, as it has not received an explicit invitation from the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela to observe the aforementioned presidential elections.

According to the Spanish news agency, the media accessed a verbal message from the Venezuelan Embassy in Madrid to the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dated July 17. The message states that the CNE support program for the presidential elections did not mention “an international monitoring mission” by the Spanish Kingdom.

Last week, this delegation was announced by the Popular Party’s (PP) spokesperson in the Congress of Spain, Miguel Tellado. It will comprise Tellado, Deputy Spokesperson in Congress Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, General Secretary of the PP Macarena Montesinos, and Foreign Affairs Committee Spokesperson Belén Hoyo.

“If parliamentary representatives attempt to violate the electoral regulations of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela by attempting to enter Venezuelan territory without being part of the aforementioned Electoral Support Program, they will be denied entry,” the diplomatic message reads, according to reports by the Spanish media.

It also mentioned that this delegation would be sent to Venezuela following an invitation made last June by far-right Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado to the members of the Ibero-American Affairs Commission.

Venezuela’s Electoral Power Ratifies Revocation of EU Observation Invitation (+EU Rebukes)

Last May, the CNE announced the decision to revoke and nullify the invitation to the European Union (EU) for an electoral observation mission to observe the presidential elections due to an announcement regarding illegal sanctions against CNE officials, considered a blackmailing tool. The announcement consisted of “temporarily” revoking illegal personal sanctions that the EU imposed against President of the Venezuelan Electoral Power Elvis Amoroso and other Venezuelan officials.

At that time, Amoroso recalled that the EU consolidated the illegal sanctions against Venezuela and only lifted selected ones for blackmail. Consequently, the CNE agreed to revoke the invitation, stating that “it would be immoral” to allow their participation given Europe’s neocolonial practices and interventionism against Venezuela.

(Últimas Noticias) by María Eugenia Rodríguez with Orinoco Tribune content

Translation: Orinoco Tribune

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