Spain will try to achieve a joint position regarding Venezuela in Latin America

The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, said this Friday that, after the agreement in the European Union not to recognize the electoral victory of Nicolás Maduro in VenezuelaA joint position will also be sought from the main regional actors, such as Brazil.

“We have to start to accept the fact that these voting records will probably never appear and therefore we will not recognise them,” Albares said in a statement to the press in Paris, on the occasion of a meeting with his French counterpart, Stéphane Sejourné, and a visit to the Paralympic Games.

Albares, who had urged Brussels to take a clear position considering the scenario that the minutes of the presidential elections of July 28 in Venezuela are never revealed, considered that Brussels expressed itself clearly and firmly on Thursday at the informal meeting of foreign ministers.

“We will not recognise any supposed victory, which of course cannot be verified, and we will work together at the European level to achieve this dialogue, this negotiation between Venezuelans,” he stressed.

At the same time, “we will of course work with the main regional players,” he said.

Specifically, Albares said that he is “practically every 48 or 72 hours” in telephone contact with his Brazilian counterpart, Mauro Vieira, “to try to have a joint position with the main Latin American and regional actors.”

The objective is to achieve a dialogue process “that is a peaceful and Venezuelan solution” and that at the same time serves to “guarantee the physical integrity and fundamental rights of all Venezuelans, especially political leaders,” The Spanish minister explained.

Although the National Elected Council claims, based on the minutes of the voting tables published by them on a website, that the winner was their candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia.