Moscow/Prensa Latina
The European Parliament, which recognized Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González as the elected president of the South American country, is showing “symptoms of violent madness,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said today.
“The European Parliament has become an embodiment of the collective unconscious with symptoms of violent madness. It has an obsessive idea of persecuting those who are not part of the European Union,” Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.
Earlier on Thursday, in a resolution approved by 309 votes in favour, 201 against and 12 abstentions, MEPs recognised González as the “legitimate and democratically elected president”.
Venezuela held presidential elections on July 28, in which Nicolás Maduro obtained 51.95 percent of the votes, while González, his closest contender, obtained 43.18 percent of the votes, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE).
The opposition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) rejected the results and released CNE minutes that would prove that its candidate, González, was the winner of the elections.
On September 5, the Venezuelan courts issued an arrest warrant against González for the alleged commission of crimes of usurpation of functions, forgery of public documents, instigation to disobedience of laws, conspiracy, sabotage to damage systems and association.
The former PUD candidate arrived in Madrid on September 8, as a political asylum seeker, after the Maduro administration granted him safe conduct “for the sake of tranquility and political peace” in the country.
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