EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas stated that the country's authorities "have not respected" the will of the Venezuelan people.
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00:00Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in Friday for a new term, despite opposition
00:08claims that there is no clear evidence that he won the elections last July.
00:14Maduro intends to add six more years to his term in office.
00:18The Venezuelan opposition, led by Edmundo Gonzalez and Maria Corina Machado, openly
00:24calls Maduro's clinging on to power a coup d'etat, but they were not the only ones to
00:30oppose the ceremony.
00:32The European Union has condemned the situation in Venezuela and insists that the election
00:38results remain unverified.
00:41According to the EU's top diplomat Kaja Kalas, Maduro lacks the legitimacy of a democratically
00:48elected president.
00:49While the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Mezzola, even argues that Maduro should
00:55be facing justice, not taking an illegitimate oath.