The European Service for External Action received this Tuesday in Brussels a petition signed by 3,500 international personalities demanding respect for the parliamentary elections in Venezuela and the sovereignty of that country.
After members of the European Solidarity Network with Venezuela delivered the letter to Josep Borrell, the high representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the member of the anti-imperialist organization INTAL, Andrea Cotrena pointed out that the document constitutes a call to respect the vote of Venezuelans and their peace efforts.
“We were a group of around 10 people from organizations and social movements of the European Solidarity Network with Venezuela, and the letter was received by a secretary from Borrell’s Cabinet, in an act that had a spokesmanship in French and Spanish,” said Cotreña.
The petition calls on the EU to respect international law and the possibility for the Venezuelans to vote in peace in the parliamentary elections of December 6 in a process that is the result of consensus between the government and democratic sectors of the opposition.
The letter signed by personalities from different parts of the world warns that the EU did not want to send observers to the elections, in what it describes as a submissive posture in the face of pressure and the imperialist policy of the United States.
Among the signatories are former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, British musician Roger Waters, French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, intellectuals Ignacio Ramonet and Atilio Borón and Brazilian theologian Frei Betto.
Regarding the democratic nature of the parliamentarians on December 6, the letter to Borrell illustrates this with figures: 107 parties in the running and 14,400 candidates for 277 seats.
After the delivery, the Venezuelan Chancellor Jorge Arreaza, reiterated that the European Union must respect the result of DEC-6 elections in Venezuela, thanked the European Network of Solidarity with Venezuela for the truth and solidarity they show in this petition with more than 3,500 rubrics.
