European countries recognized Juan Guydo as temporary president Venezuela

European countries turn out one after another from the current president of Venezuela Nicholas Maduro. Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain, Sweden, etc. - only ten states recognized the opposition by Huan Guydo as an interim president of the country after Maduro refused to fulfill the demand of European countries to appoint early presidential elections.

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Read more. The first to support the support of Guaido, the Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez, followed by British Foreign Ministers Jeremy Hunt and Sweden Margot Valmstrem, Austria Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz and French President Emanuel Macron. Later , Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Latvia and Lithuania also joined the allies. It is assumed that later on Monday the new temporary president Venezuela is recognized by the Netherlands.

Sanchez explained the confession of Guydo by the fact that this would allow the country as soon as possible free and democratic elections. According to the French Prime Minister Jean-Ivan Le Drian, Guydo has sufficient abilities and legitimacy for this.
Guydo was recognized as European leaders after Maduro did not fulfill the ultimatum set by him. Earlier, Germany, France, Great Britain and Spain called on the current President of Venezuela to hold elections within eight days, threatening otherwise to recognize the legitimacy of the self -proclaimed head of state. On Sunday, Maduro said that the ultimatums in international politics use only the "empires of the colonial era."
The overall position of the entire European Union on Venezuela is still discussed, not all EU countries (for example, Italy) seek to recognize Guido as a temporary prisoner. With a joint statement, the block may make later on Monday, writes Bloomberg.

Context. The first to recognize the legitimacy of Guaido to the USA and Canada, as well as a number of Latin American countries. Trying to weaken the positions of Maduro, the United States also imposed sanctions against the Venezuelan oil State Monopolis PDVSA. The day before, President Donald Trump said that as one of the possible options for resolving the situation in Venezuela, they consider armed intervention.

Possible measures against Maduro are discussing in the EU . Last week, Blok foreign ministers announced the possible imposition of sanctions against Maduro Government members. The EU does not plan to introduce wider economic sanctions, like American.
The countries of Latin America and Canada are going to discuss measures to provide additional pressure on the Maduro regime today. Most of them are also expressed for holding early presidential elections.
Russia, China and Turkey remain on the side of Maduro . According to Reuters, the Russian government and the Rosneft state -owned company since 2006 have provided Venezuela in a amount of at least $ 17 billion (as of 2017). Last week, Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia Sergey Storchak made problems with Venezuela’s debt servicing to Moscow after the last US sanctions against PDVSA. According to him, the total amount of Venezuela's public debt to Russia is $ 3 billion.

Find out more. The fact that Huado is known and how his political career was rapidly developing, you can read here .

Liana Faizova