It is the first time the Strasbourg hemicycle's bolstered right-wing factions unite in a vote since June's European elections.
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00:00The European Parliament has recognized Edmundo González, the candidate of the opposition, as the legitimate president of Venezuela.
00:08The chamber rejected the official results of the presidential election held at the end of July
00:12and condemned the repression and attacks on civil society under Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro.
00:17And it is adopted.
00:19This is a step further compared to EU member states, which did not recognize Maduro as a legitimate president, but neither González as the winner.
00:27309 MEPs voted in favor, among them the members of the EPP, the largest political group in the Parliament.
00:34This recognition to the obvious, what the electoral acts that have been distributed outside Venezuela,
00:43clearly shows the victory of Edmundo González and the democratic opposition to this dictatorial regime.
01:04They also generally condemned Maduro's persecutions and rejected the official results,
01:08but the Renew Europe group abstained because they did not want to vote with the far right.
01:13Socialists, Greens and the left voted against.
01:16None of the 27 countries of the European Union has done it, nor has the European Union done it,
01:20and in fact, of the entire international community, only two countries, Panama and Ecuador, have made this recognition.
01:26We have indicators of the result, but we do not have the entire electoral body.
01:31And it seems to us that we are not a legitimate body to recognize an electoral result when we do not have all the documents and all the data.
01:41The resolution also requests an international arrest warrant for Nicolás Maduro for crimes against humanity,
01:47on the basis of, quote, grave violations of human rights.