Recent statements made by the high representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, in regard to Venezuela’s November 21 elections, have generated multiple reactions of rejection and condemnation from government authorities as well as Venezuelan social media users.
After the issue became known with the Venezuelan government officially establishing its position through a statement published on Friday, October 8, Venezuelan social media users as well as authority figures started posting on various social networks, demanding respect, explanations and apologies from Borell for the people of Venezuela people and the national institutions.
✖️Estas son las declaraciones de Joseph Borrel (UniĂłn Europea) que generaron las diversas repulsas, condenas y enjabonadas que le propinaron al personajillo este Jorge RodrĂguez, Diosdado Cabello y buena parte de compatriotas amantes de la patria y celosos de nuestra soberanĂa. pic.twitter.com/qgZqAN2FU7
— Tania Valentina DĂaz (@taniapsuv) October 9, 2021
Borrell’s problematic comments came days after the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) confirmed that the EU would send an observation mission to Venezuela for the regional and local elections. However, Borrell has now tried to practically go beyond the CNE’s investiture and the sovereignty of the electoral exercise of the Venezuelan people.
On Friday, the EU high representative had commented that “the [electoral observer] mission’s report will be what will legitimize or delegitimize” the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Borrell also said that the European Union Mission will function as a guarantee for the opposition parties that are participating in the elections.
Si a su edad no ha aprendido a respetar a una nación digna y soberana, como es Venezuela hace 200 años cuando nuestros padres libertadores expulsaron al imperio x el que Usted refleja plañidera nostalgia, … https://t.co/gxQudnw0b7
— Jorge RodrĂguez (@jorgerpsuv) October 8, 2021
Referring to Borrell’s comments, Diosdado Cabello, first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), stated that his attitude is typical of those who believe that Venezuela is still a colony.
“What this person [Borrell] forgets is that we drove out the Spanish empire a little over 200 years ago,” Cabello wrote on his Twitter account. “Today we are independent, we do not accept impositions from the lackeys of imperialism. We will be victorious!”
“Spain has no morals”
Tibisay Lucena, rector of the National Experimental University of the Arts (UNEARTES) and former president of Venezuela’s national electoral authority, also reacted to Borrell’s comments, criticizing the EU high representative’s attacks on the agreement that led to the designation of an EU Mission.
Lucena expressed that Venezuela is not a province of Spain, which is Borrell’s home country. She added that only the people of Venezuela, with their vote and exercising their sovereignty under the mandate of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, can legitimize each election that is held in the country. “Spain has no morals to talk about democracy,” she wrote on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/TibisayLucena8/status/1446582436331245572
Even some opposition sectors reacted with displeasure at Borrell’s comments regarding the supposed role that the EU delegation would play in the November 21 elections. Borrell had stated that the electoral observation mission of the EU would “accompany the opposition.”
https://twitter.com/eochoa_antich/status/1446823867893354501
Featured image: High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell. File photo
(RedRadioVE) by JosĂ© Manuel Blanco DĂaz
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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José Manuel Blanco Diaz
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